Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
Marshall McLuhanTV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.
Marshall McLuhanOne main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)
Marshall McLuhanI am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand whatโs happening. Because I donโt choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, youโre in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something Iโm resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.
Marshall McLuhan