Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

J-POD || Podcast || “Media freedom in India has sunk even lower after COVID. Social media has smashed our notion of what is news. The time has come to reconsider the valorisation of news media”|| ACJ chief Sashi Kumar

17 May 2020

*** Largely because of the low road it has taken in the last couple of decades, and directly as a result of the challenges thrown up by the COVID pandemic, the time has come for Indian news media to press the reset button once again. A hard reset actually. Force-Quit. No one knows what…

Medium is the message in a movie hall queue

22 July 2010

No mention of Marshall McLuhan in the global village is complete without “the medium is the message” bit. On his birth annivesary, Boing Boing digs up a scene from Woody Allen‘s Annie Hall.