to national programs, some Arab governments have passed a 
law forbidding the use of private headphones, in effect 
enforcing a tribal collectivism in their radio audiences. Radio 
restores tribal sensitivity and exclusive involvement in the web 
of kinship. The press, on the other hand, creates a visual, not-
too-involved kind of unity that is hospitable to the inclusion of 
many tribes, and to diversity of private outlook.

     If telegraph shortened the sentence, radio shortened the 
news story, and TV injected the interrogative mood into 
journalism. In fact, the press is now not only a telephoto 
mosaic of the human community hour by hour, but its 
technology is also a mosaic of all the technologies of the 
community. Even in its selection of the newsworthy, the press 
prefers those persons who have already been accorded some 
notoriety existence in movies, radio, TV, and drama. By this