…one of the effects of television is to remove people s private identity. They become corporate peer-group people just by watching it. They lose interest in being private individuals. And so this is one of the hidden and perhaps insidious effects of television.
“What TV Does Best”, 1976, in Understanding Me, 2003, p 255
Year: 1976
Chapter:
Television
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Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan