The specialized acoustic image of the demagogue on radio, or talking movie, is suddenly shifted into iconic or "cartoon" form on TV. Earlier I indicated why the TV image is a kind of X-ray mesh of lines and dots that comes at the viewer.
“Technology and the Human Dimension” (Interview with L. Forsdale, 1974), in MM: The Man and His Message (1989), p 23
Year: 1974
Chapters:
LOM 4 - Flip, or Reverse into the Opposite | Television
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