ABSTRACT
Freedom of expression is confined by the economic conditions of the media, the limited access to a forum of public discussion, and, perhaps most importantly, the inability to overcome the effects of an educational system that helps create and expand markets…. A contemporary theory of mass communication must identify, describe, and analyze the effects of these economic-political determinants of social communication in an effort to develop an alternative perspective. (Hardt, 1979, p. 229)
