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134 – “The Medium is the Message”: Part Two on Today’s Media Landscape And How It Changes All Of Us

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The Medium Is the Message

Last week we talked about the mediam landscape we lived in, how it changes all of us. We're going to continue that conversation in a slightly different direction and part two. The medium is the message comes from a book written in the 19 sixties by media theorist marshall mc luan. It was later popularized in the 19 eighties by the american medi theorist neil postman called amusing ourselves to death. And what they predicted, again as early as 19 64, is that politics should not be entertainment.

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