Rosano / Journal

[Electric technology extends the nervous system and enables direct immediate communication between neurons of everyone on the planet.]

[An 'increase innoroduction and sales' would be a disaster for existing management large corporations because it means making way for new management.]

[The telegraph compelled several major American newspapers to form a collective newsgathering organization that became known as the Associated Press.]

[The telegraph had a decentralizing force on newspapers in England, reducing dependancy on the metropolitan press and encouraging provincial competition.]

[The immediacy of telegraph, telephone, and airplane make it easier to avoid delegating authority and do it yourself.]

[The telegraph increased the volume of news, strengthening its role as the shaper of public attitudes and weakening the role of editorial opinions: news is no longer understood to be a 'view'.]

Part of: Marshal McLuhan: Understanding Media.
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