Yeah, I don't know either, but I bet some of it had to do with the
singular watching of TV as against the collective watching of a
newsreel.
And newsreels took time to put together as they usually went out only
once a week.
So that might make them less 'cool' (in McLuhan's usage of that term,
as opposed to 'hot' media).
Doug
On 24-Oct-07, at 8:26 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
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>> What was McLuhan's argument re the difference between TV and newsreel?
>>
> I don't recall if he mentioned it; by the 60s, he probably assumed it
> was obsolete.
>
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