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In the early 1970s, the American media landscape was dominated by a handful of television networks and print conglomerates. It was within this environment that Herbert I. Schiller, a pioneer in the critical political economy of communication, published The Mind Managers . Moving beyond the dominant sociological paradigm of the time—which often viewed media effects through the lens of individual behavior or limited "effects" studies—Schiller adopted a macro-structural approach. He argued that the media are instruments of domination, utilized by the corporate elite to maintain the status quo. This paper analyzes Schiller’s identification of the mechanisms of media control and his deconstruction of the myths that legitimize them.