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but after it was discovered that McLuhan had
drawn upon Innis, and had in effect extended his
work—remember, the year Innis died was the year
television was introduced officially into Canada—
once the critics discovered this connection, they
tended to use mythical language, saying that
McLuhan was the Icarus to Innis’ Daedalus. Innis
was the great scholar and he’d really done all the
work, and then you had McLuhan coming along,
basically scalping ideas, going off on all these wild
tangents. I think that is sheer nonsense. If you
read the work of the two men, McLuhan’s
contributions were significant in extending and
deepening many of the kinds of insights that Innis