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something major. I think Innis was indeed the
first—as McLuhan always said—Innis was the first
to hit upon the effects of the forms of media. Innis
was unique in this respect. Now keep in mind that
McLuhan also found great inspiration in James
Joyce. He believed that Joyce had arrived at a
great deal of this. But as far as somebody actually
sitting down and talking about the shift from the
oral to the literate, Innis’ magnificent views of the
bias of communication and how this worked. Innis
was very much a pioneer, but McLuhan was an
equal pioneer. They were both founders of what we
think of as the Canadian communications history
tradition.