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newspaper killed the theatre, just as TV hit the movies and the
night clubs very hard. George Bernard Shaw had the wit and
imagination to fight back. He put the press into the theatre,
taking over the controversies and the human interest world of
the press for the stage, as Dickens had done for the novel. The
movie took over the novel and the newspaper and the stage, all
at once. Then TV pervaded the movie and gave the theatre-in-
the-round back to the public.
What I am saying is that media as extensions of our
senses institute new ratios, not only among our private senses,
but among themselves, when they interact among themselves.
Radio changed the form of the news story as much as it altered
the film image in the talkies. TV caused drastic changes in radio
programming, and in the form of the thing or documentary
novel.