Look at Hitler, who was a product of radio. Hitler 
could not have survived one hour on TV. . . . 
Everything that sounded so important and 
earnest on radio would have been just comic on 
TV. Any process, pushed to its limits, flips. The 
specialized acoustic image of the demagogue on 
radio, or talking movie, is suddenly shifted into 
iconic or “cartoon” form on TV. Earlier I indicated 
why the TV image is a kind of x-ray mesh of lines 
and dots that comes at the viewer. It is an effect 
quite different from photo or movie, for these 
latter leave the viewer relatively detached and 
uninvolved. But to bring intensity to the TV 
medium is fatal, or at least comic, as witness