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The problem has been falsely seen as democracy vs. the mass media. But the mass media are democracy. The book itself was the first mechanical mass medium.
“The New Languages”, 1956,
Chicago Review, republished in Explorations 7, 1957
Quote #1446
Year:
1956
Chapter:
Democracy
Compiled by William Kuhns
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