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. . . the television image is a continuously formed
mosaic with no still shots, no reconstruction of
actions, no perspective and very little detail. The
television mosaic is so poor in data, in fact, that it
must be mostly filled in by the viewer. It moreover
has not light on , but only light through . So that,
typically, the television viewer is conditioned to
expect much activity and to expect knowledge to be
a kind of total revelation of illumination from within
both subject and himself. . . . Television, like radio,
states much less than it suggests. Books and film,
in contrast, state very fully and suggest much less.
Thomas P. McDonnell, “Marshall McLuhan—The Man