one goes back to McLuhan, to see how he looked 
at television, then we’ll be prepared to try look at 
the information superhighway, the Internet.

Also, the effects of television—although there 
hasn’t seemed to be a radical change—I think they 
have been building up. We’ve become more and 
more aware that the broadcast media has totally 
taken over, it has reshaped everything. Since 
Reagan, since Clinton, there’s no pretense 
anymore that anything other than television is the 
be all and end all of politics. Not just in the fact 
that they get on television, but television shapes 
our habits in how we look at politicians, as