A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[In a newspaper] most trivial matters are given considerable additional intensity by being translated into prose at all. That is why no account of anything can be "truthful" in a newspaper.
From Cliché to Archetype with Wilfred Watson (1970), p 198
Year: 1970
Chapters: News | Truth
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