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Within the global economic system commercial media are powerful players. They not only support and complement the needs of nonmedia firms, but also stimulate corporate growth within countries. As they are also the main vehicle for advertising, commercial media moreover facilitate the marketing of products and services.
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Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) is the leading scholar of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers, cultural critics and social scientists associated with the Institute for Social Research, founded in Frankfurt in 1929. The Frankfurt School is best known for its program of developing a "critical theory of society". Habermas was a student of Adorno, becoming his assistant in 1956. He first taught philosophy at Heidelberg before becoming a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt. In 1972, he moved to the Max-Planck Institute in Starnberg, but in the mid-1980s, he returned to his post at Frankfurt.
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