A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Real news is bad news. Since the press lives on advertising, and all advertising is good news, it takes a lot of bad news to sell all this good news. Even the good news of the gospel can only be sold by hellfire. Vatican II made a very big mistake in this matter, as in other matters.
Letter to Pierre Elliott Trudeau January 24, 1969, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 362
Year: 1969
Chapter: Catholic Church
Compiled by William Kuhns
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