Marshall McLuhan Nailed this Whole Media Thing
Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan made his observations about electronic media in the ’60s but they seem more prophetic than ever in this short by Brooklyn’s Daniel Savage for The Listening Post, Al Jazeera’s weekly program examining world media. [Read more]
Yule Log 2.015: That Burning Holiday Desire
At 9:30pm on Christmas eve 1966, New York TV station WPIX debuted a three-hour program comprised of a single 17-second, 16 millimeter looped clip of the Gracie Mansion fireplace with carols as a soundtrack. Then… [Read more]