Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/01933_Field_OMPA T31.txt

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Lincoln-Douglas debates of the 19th century and
so on, I feel that we’re not in a time now where we
can have long, 3 1/2 hour debates. There’s no way
that any presidential candidate can ever be fully
prepared for the kind of crises that face a world
leader today. That, point in fact, the sound byte or
the TV camera coming up into your face, that can
tell me far more about a man or a woman’s
reflexes, a man or woman’s character under
pressure. It is television that has made Perot, for
example, but it also destroyed Perot. The television
coming up close has in fact reduced Perot’s, I
think, ultimate electability. Perot’s ideas without a
television camera would have been far more