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crossed with print and rotary presses, yields the modern
newspaper. And the photograph is not a machine, but a
chemical and light process that, crossed with the machine,
yields the movie. Yet there is a vigor and violence in these
hybrid forms that is self-liquidating, as it were. For in radio and
TV—purely electric forms from which the mechanical principle
has been excluded—there is an altogether new relation of the
medium to its users. This is a relation of high participation and
involvement that, for good or ill, no mechanism had ever
evoked.
Education is ideally civil defense against media fall-out.
Yet Western man has had, so far, no education or equipment
for meeting any of the new media on their own terms. Literate
man is not only numb and vague in the presence of film or
photo, but he intensifies his ineptness by a defensive arrogance