A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

I think that is one of the functions of news. To blow up a storm so big that you can dissipate it by coverage. It's a way of getting rid of the pressure, by coverage... You can actually dissipate a situation by giving it a maximal coverage...
[Asked about alarming people] Uh, that's done by rumors, not by coverage.
“What TV Does Best” (1976), in Understanding Me (2003), p 244
Year: 1976
Chapter: News
Compiled by William Kuhns
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