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Explore Marshall McLuhan’s groundbreaking theories on communication, technology, and why "the medium is the message" in the digital age.
…Hitler would have lasted long on TV. Like Senator Joe McCarthy, he would have looked foolish. He was a very hot character. And like Nixon, made a very bad image on television. He was far too hot a character. Much better on radio or on the movies, not…
…too hot a character. Much better on radio or on the movies, not bad on the movies, which will take quite hot characters. But Nixon was hopeless on TV. The investigations now of the CIA and the FBI and even our own, God forbid, RCMP, is this, has this…
…who heard the Nixon-Kennedy 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…
…radio, not on TV. I didn't know that. So, radio is a hot private medium by comparison with TV, and... There's no comparison. Nixon is a superior in that form. In the private debate mode, carrying the private point of view and the private point right…
…Or I may be crazy, but I'm not far from it. That's all the attention span that you're supposed to have anymore. If Nixon had been the captain of the Titanic, what would he have said to the passengers? He would have said, ladies and gentlemen, we're…
…in many cases, be done better by women. Another strange effect of this electric environment is the total absence of secrecy. What Nixon refers to as the confidentiality of his role and position is no longer feasible. No form of secrecy is possible at…
…of their employers, and their employers were President Ford and Governor Carter. You might as well tell me that that was true of Nixon, who had lots of experts working on his image, and they didn't know what they were doing. But they were less conscious…
…Different eras. They function by one rule internationally and by another nationally, and that's really what's come in conflict, that the Nixon administration tried to run their work by the same, they want to be in sync with themselves, and they find that…