A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…the news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
“A Last Look at the Tube” (1978), typescript, p 3
Year: 1978
Chapters: Media | News
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