A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

If telegraph shortened the sentence, radio shortened the news story, and TV injected the interrogative mood into journalism. In fact, the press is now not only a telephoto mosaic of the human community hour by hour, but its technology is also a mosaic of all the technologies of the community.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 215
Year: 1964
Chapters: Media Effects | News
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