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respect the newspaper is national, not tribal
attempting a visual unity of all those who speak a
common tongue. But the tribe is constituted via the
ear, and even the all-at-onceness of the telegraph
fosters this pattern. Hence the teenager. A new
tribal man suddenly within a highly mechanical and
literate culture.
Marshall McLuhan to John Wain, March 11, 1960,
Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto, 1987), p.
267.