Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns. – Marshall McLuhan
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. – Marshall McLuhan
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time thats healthy and indeed even creative. But its where – its really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. – Tony Blair