In TV news, you are the studio on the air, not just a private person being put on a medium. In other words, you, as user, are putting on the medium. Instead of reporters, you have only performers. The audience as actor and as user puts on the whole medium as his mask of power. It is an extension of himself.
“Sharing the News” (1971), p 3
Year: 1971
Chapter:
Putting On
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan