A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[Today] you cannot have a slum that is not also your own home; you cannot have a scandal that is not in your family; you cannot save face by sitting on your ass (or vice-versa)
“Sharing the News—Friendly Teamness: Teeming Friendness.” Commissioned by the ABC Owned Television Stations for their private distribution. Copyright shared by ABC and McLuhan Associates, Ltd. N.p., 44 pp.. Rpt., as “Television views the news: hot events on a cool medium, where the audience is the actor.” Television / Radio Age, September 6, Vol. 19, No 3, September 6, 1971, p 6
Year: 1971
Chapter: Global Village
Compiled by William Kuhns
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