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to national programs, some Arab governments have passed a
law forbidding the use of private headphones, in effect
enforcing a tribal collectivism in their radio audiences. Radio
restores tribal sensitivity and exclusive involvement in the web
of kinship. The press, on the other hand, creates a visual, not-
too-involved kind of unity that is hospitable to the inclusion of
many tribes, and to diversity of private outlook.
If telegraph shortened the sentence, radio shortened the
news story, and TV injected the interrogative mood into
journalism. In fact, the press is now not only a telephoto
mosaic of the human community hour by hour, but its
technology is also a mosaic of all the technologies of the
community. Even in its selection of the newsworthy, the press
prefers those persons who have already been accorded some
notoriety existence in movies, radio, TV, and drama. By this