A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Radio is provided with its cloak of invisibility, like any other medium. It comes to us ostensibly with person-to-person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magical power to touch remote and forgotten chords.
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge edition, p 302
Year: 1964
Chapter: Radio
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