A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

When news moves slowly the newspaper has time to provide perspectives, background, and interpretations for the news and the reader is given a consumer package. When the news comes at high speed there is no possibility of such arbitrary processing
“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, Chicago, March 3, 1959. Transcript, p 5
Year: 1959
Chapter: News
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