newspaper killed the theatre, just as TV hit the movies and the 
night clubs very hard. George Bernard Shaw had the wit and 
imagination to fight back. He put the press into the theatre, 
taking over the controversies and the human interest world of 
the press for the stage, as Dickens had done for the novel. The 
movie took over the novel and the newspaper and the stage, all 
at once. Then TV pervaded the movie and gave the theatre-in-
the-round back to the public.

     What I am saying is that media as extensions of our 
senses institute new ratios, not only among our private senses, 
but among themselves, when they interact among themselves. 
Radio changed the form of the news story as much as it altered 
the film image in the talkies. TV caused drastic changes in radio 
programming, and in the form of the thing  or documentary 
novel.