Marshall McLuhan Quotes

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I think the media is a real demon.

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

We live in a media culture and whoever controls and influences and uses media the best has the power for change.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.