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On Wednesday of this week Marshall McLuhan died at
his home in Toronto. He was 69. Hailed as one of the
most important thinkers of his time, Marshall McLuhan
achieved worldwide fame as a communications
theorist. His ideas on the way culture is shaped by the
mass media produced devoted followers, passionate
enemies and enraged critics.
This is Roger Maurier at the Holy Rosary Church in
Toronto. Five-hundred people have gathered here on a
bitterly cold day to pay their last respects to Marshall