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A: I mean Marshall was out of fashion in the late
’70s. I never thought that fashion had anything to
do with the value of his work. I thought it had a lot
to do with the way he had been promoted. And up
to a point perhaps in the way he saw himself after
a while, because if you are given so much attention
by the media, it has to get to you at some point.
But I didn’t think that you could measure the
relevance or the pertinence of McLuhan’s work to
the amount of information that was about
McLuhan on the media, or the amount of talk
about him. I didn’t think so. I always felt that what
McLuhan was working on was fundamental, was
essential. It could be transitory to the extent that