Marshall McLuhan, 1973.

All the News Fit to Print

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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According toTony Schwartz, "we've all heard the expression, 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder.' I think that, in today's electronic environment, communications is in the ears and eyes and brain of the receiver, the person who listens." Schwartz demonstrates this thought with an audio montage of a high-school student and media theorist Marshall McLuhan discussing the New York Times' famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."


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