“Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 302

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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