Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.