2024/09/17

Ezra Klein Argues TV-Age Media Theorists Underestimated Impacts of Modern Media

“The things they were saying television would do to us and do to our culture are right. For better and for worse, they saw it all coming, and they described a world way less warped and deranged by all this than the one we actually live in.”
New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein, on how the internet and social media put the warnings of prominent 20th-century media theorists Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman about the societal impacts of modern media to shame
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