A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

When the news team explains, “We’ve always tried to be ourselves,” they are quite naturally expressing their response to people and events. They seek to release the forms and meaning from people and things and to present the news “they way they feel about it.” By contrast, the press type of stories are detached ways of saying, “And that’s the way it is.”
“Display Ad 37 -- No Title” (Display_Ad_37), in New York Times, Aug 24, 1971, p 38
Year: 1971
Chapter: News
Compiled by William Kuhns
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