You can turn on or “put on” radio, or you can “go on the air” or you can get “radio coverage” ( a kind of clothing) as a service, and you can also “put on” the illusion of an invasion of Mars, as Orson Welles did for us. It was terrifying!
“Technology and the Human Dimension: Marshall McLuhan and Louis Forsdale”, in Marshall McLuhan: the Man and His Message (1989), p 13
Year: 1989
Chapter:
Radio
Compiled by William Kuhns
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