“For most of our lifetime civil war has been raging in the 
world of art and entertainment. . . . Moving pictures, 
gramophone records, radio, talking pictures. . . .” This is the 
view of Donald McWhinnie, analyst of the radio medium. Most of 
this civil war affects us in the depths of our psychic lives, as 
well, since the war is conducted by forces that are extensions 
and amplifications of our own beings. Indeed, the interplay 
among media is only another name for this “civil war” that 
rages in our society and our psyches alike. “To the blind all 
things are sudden,” it has been said. The crossings or 
hybridizations of the media release great new force and energy 
as by fission or fusion. There need be no blindness in these 
matters once we have been notified that there is anything to 
observe.

     It has now been explained that media, or the extensions