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What was McLuhan's argument re the difference between TV and newsreel? P > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Frederick Pollack > Sent: 24 October 2007 22:07 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: "I - Thou" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: "I - Thou" > > > > Ah, the commentary each of us has wanted at some time to make, Fred. > > > > Especially loved the grammar corrections.... > > > > Am so often making mental corrections of even newscasters.... > > > > Doug > > > I'd expect CBC newscasters to be at least literate.Real despair, political > and stylistic, lies in watching Glenn Beck and other American TV > "commentators." The only consolation to which is that they disprove > McLuhan's contention, back in the early 60s, that a televised Hitler would > be impossible. TV a "cool" medium, imposing coolness, as opposed to radio, > etc. Even at the time this struck me as too optimistic.