Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

I think we'll always have newspapers, but they'll lose influence.

In a television age, the record is lame; it never catches up.

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in.

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

I remember when cable happened and everyone said broadcast was dead, and then satellite happened and everyone said cable was dead, and then DVDs happened and everyone said everything was over. Nothing was over. I'm very optimistic about the future.