Nfl. All this growth and Development Runs parallel to the growth of television in america if you look at a chart the number of televisions in america the number of people who had access to television and you drill alliant 1947 through 1965, said said you took the nfl growth and development 1947 through 1965 they run absolutely parallel. That is not an accident the media expert Marshall Mcluhan were talked about this if you watch of the ball game where is the best place . On in your big screen tv in your house. That is the best place. The bessie in the house. Second is that a sports bar. The third set where else fourth or fifth is maybe the stadium so there are long periods where nothing is going on in the think what is going on . I want my replay and my analysis. [laughter] host how are you doing today bill . Guest thanks for taking the time to talk to me. Host your new book killing reagan the first of the killing series . Guest thats correct. Host with the others kennedy and patton an
Warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest well because i firmly believe that if comcast were allowed to buy Time Warner Cable, that they would have been too big a company, they would have been anticompetitive, not in the public interests. It would have led to higher prices for consumers less choice. And if its even possible with these two companies, worse service. Host is it because of the size of the company . Guest yeah. Well size and what parts of the market they have, they have about 30 of cable between them and about 57 of internet broadband, highspeed internet broadband. Thats just too big. And i had a lot of content providers, networks come to me and say they were opposed to this deal, but they were itll just give you some idea of what happens when you get this big, they were afraid to say so, to be public, because they feared retribution. Host did comcast come to you . Did they try to influence your opinion . Guest they did not. But i think they see ive been against the
Mcluhan made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. What he said then still resonates in the wired world we inhabit today. Mcluhan was writing about the effects of the mass media on contemporary life, talking mostly about television. However, his ideas and predictions proved prophetic and, in the tumult of todays digital revolution, a lot of what mcluhan said seems as relevant now as it was 50 years ago. In part two of the program, well speak with a present day media theorist about mcluhan. Evgeny morozov also has some interesting and, at times, contrarian views on new and social media and how many of us see its potential impact on society. In short, he thinks were naive, idealistic and should be prepared to be disappointed. But first, the media now compared to the message then from Marshall Mcluhan. At the speed of light, theres no sequence. Everything happens at the same instant. When you dont have a physical body, youre a discarnate being. You have a very dif
Mcluhan made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. What he said then still resonates in the wired world we inhabit today. Mcluhan was writing about the effects of the mass media on contemporary life, talking mostly about television. However, his ideas and predictions proved prophetic and, in the tumult of todays digital revolution, a lot of what mcluhan said seems as relevant now as it was 50 years ago. In part two of the program, well speak with a present day media theorist about mcluhan. Evgeny morozov also has some interesting and, at times, contrarian views on new and social media and how many of us see its potential impact on society. In short, he thinks were naive, idealistic and should be prepared to be disappointed. But first, the media now compared to the message then from Marshall Mcluhan. At the speed of light, theres no sequence. Everything happens at the same instant. When you dont have a physical body, youre a discarnate being. You have a very dif