This perspective [critical theory],
once derived from Habermas' inves
tigations, can be further clarified and
be made relevant to U.S. mass media
through comparison with the investi
gations by an American media critic,
Herbert Schiller, whose analyses of
mass communication have explicated
those media techniques which frus
trate the realization of informed, par
ticipating citizens. Based upon the
Habermas-Schiller comparison, the
consequences of a critical mass com
munication theory for communica
tors should suggest a mass media
praxiology.
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