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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…something. There's one every half hour in Bronxville. This man has a plane to get tomorrow early. For Edmonton, yeah. From Kennedy? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's fairly early planning. What have you been doing, Herman, besides arguing on... I don't argue at all.…
…debates on radio were amazed that anybody could have any doubt about who was superior. On radio, Nixon sounded infinitely superior to Kennedy. Some people I knew actually heard the debates first on radio, not on TV. I didn't know that. So, radio is a…
…of odd dial tactile resonance. You said then that somebody who has a blurred image, in a sense, I think you talked about John Kennedy this way, that his image was not quite as vivid as Mr. Nixon's. It's not photographic. And in one sense, that made the…
…in joke styles. I'm going to tell you a couple of old-fashioned jokes to show you what I mean. A friend of mine went to Kennedy Airport a few months ago to pick up an Irishman who was coming into New York. And on the way in from the airport, the…
…Books are now art objects. Television demands participation and involvement of the whole being. It was the funeral of President Kennedy that mostly proved the power of television to draw everyone into mass participation. The entire nation and world were…
…television to draw everyone into mass participation. The entire nation and world were simultaneously united in a single emotion and involvement. Kennedy came into office as the first TV president with a resulting involvement on the part of all age groups in…
…if they want to survive politically, they have to appear reluctant. If they are too eager for that job, they're finished. So Kennedy managed to, I think, appear like the reluctant. He was heroic, but reluctantly, as if he'd rather be doing something else.…
…there's a booking agency downtown New York somewhere to get you in and out on a jet plane, but you can't really get to Kennedy very conveniently from New York. It's much better to beat it around. In other words, you take an airplane to go from a…
…and be usable. They're on its own table. And that was one of the crazy metaphors last night in this roundtable. Let Mr. Kennedy have the floor. You know, these guys using a microphone and talking about giving guys more floor space. But I think the…
…The reason is simple, that to go downtown in New York from Bronxville is to me a horror. To go downtown in New York from Kennedy is natural. Yeah. But really, when you're in a nice... You know who I met that wants to meet you? Did you ever hear of…
…something. There's one every half hour at Bronxville. This man has a plane to get tomorrow early. For Edmonton, yeah. From Kennedy? Yeah. Okay. Well, it's fairly early planning. What have you been doing, Herman, besides arguing on... I don't argue at all.…