A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[W]hen FDR mastered the microphone, as a political instrument, he found it important, if not necessary, to pit his mike against the press, the oral against the written.
“Why the CBC Must Be Dull,”, in Saturday Night, February 16th, (1957), p 14
Year: 1957
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