whole new kind of fusion of academe and media. 
This is what I have been saying right from the 
start, that there is too big a gap in America 
between the world of scholarship and the world of 
mass media in which the people live, in which 
everything gets done. Everything is done through 
media in America. I feel that it’s a function of the 
intellectual in America to close that gap. I feel that 
Susan Sontag started to do it, and then pulled 
back and became very snobbish and began chasing 
all kinds of French intellectuals, foreign 
intellectuals, any man with a foreign name became 
more interesting to her than our own mass media. 
For me, Marshall McLuhan’s experience, and I think