If you want to understand the nature of TV, you must make a complete inventory of All the things that have changed in the past 12 years, in dress, in social behavior, in program tastes. I mean, after all, the “Ben Casey” type of program would not have been tolerated in any earlier medium…. This is an example of the new seriousness, inwardness, depth of this medium.
Eric Goldman TV interview, 1966, p 9 of transcript
Year: 1966
Chapter:
Television
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan