Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Herbert Schiller

Born: November 5, 1919
Died: January 29, 2000 (aged 80)
Bio: Herbert Irving Schiller was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University.
Known for:
- The mind managers (1973)
- Mass communications and American empire (1969)
- Culture, Inc (1989)
- Information inequality (1996)
- Information and the crisis economy (1984)