Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01932_Field_OMPA T30.txt

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senatorial or presidential office go to television
consultants and are told about the kinds of
gestures and the kinds of styles and how to
condense down their thoughts into manageable
forms. People say that that is bad. That politics is
a sound byte, has led to simplification and
oversimplification and reductiveness and a kind of
dumbing-down of important policy issues.
Certainly, Neil Postman, who I respect very much—I
think Neil Postman is wonderful—Neil Postman
certainly believes this: that television is responsible
for a kind of a dangerous oversimplification of our
politics. I don’t agree with this at all. I feel that
unlike Neil Postman’s admiration for the great