McLuhan Reading Response
The McLuhan reading reiterated a lot of my thoughts on the effects of media. I agree with McLuhan when he says “The public, in the sense of a great consensus of separate and distinctive viewpoints, is finished.” The media presents news in a form that is meant merely to grab our attention and not in a way that presents the facts in an unbiased manner. We are fed what the government wants us to know in the way in which they want to convey that information. While news presented by the media has become less trustworthy I have noticed that certain types of media have increasingly become a vehicle for social change (e.g. twitter and the Arab Spring), reiterating McLuhan’s thought that there is no longer inevitability and we are responsible for each other.
The phone is an extension of the ear.
