A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

When news moves slowly the paper has time to provide perspectives, background, and interrelations for the news, and the reader is given a consumer package. When the news comes at high speeds, there is no possibility of such a literary processing, and the reader is given a do-it-yourself kit. This telegraph pattern was soon transferred to poetry, painting, and music...
“What Fundamental Changes Are Foreshadowed In The Prevailing Patterns Of Educational Organization And Methods Of Instruction By The Revolution In Electronics?”, paper presented to Discussion Group 16 at the Fourteenth National Conference on
Higher Education, March 3, 1959, p 5
Year: 1959
Chapter: News
Compiled by William Kuhns
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