They [critics who castigate TV content as cliché-ridden] have only to try out their theory for fifty consecutive words in the mass medium of the English language. What would Mr. Minow [TV critic of the era] do, without the well-worn and corny clichés of popular speech?
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 209
Year: 1964
Chapter:
Hostility to McLuhan
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan