Tag Archives: Marshall McLuhan

Native Advertising Report: Bad News/Worse News Edition

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

In Marshall McLuhan’s landmark work The Medium Is the Massage (it was a printer’s typo he liked so much he stuck with it), the legendary media guru noted that “Real news is bad news – bad news about somebody, or … Continue reading →

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Marshall McLuhan, What Are You (Not) Doin’?

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

All kinds of folks are in a tizzy over the not-tested, Obama-approved Trans Pacific Partnership and its laws of unintended consequences. Representative sample from Tikkun’s Michael Lerner: The TPP agreement violates a basic command of the Bible: that human beings … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged copyright law, Donald Creighton, Gabrielle Roy, Henry Gibson, intellectual property, Laugh-In, Margaret Laurence, Marian Engel, Marshall McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan what are you doin', Michael Geist, Michael Lerner, not imported for immediate slaughter, Rowan and Martin, Tikkun, Trans Pacific Partnership, Trojan Mule, University of Ottawa | 2 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (Marshall McLuhan Edition)

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From yesterday’s New York Times: Border Crossing Identity Crisis ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — As Marshall McLuhan once wrote about his homeland, “Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Marshall McLuhan, MASS MoCA, New York Times, Oh Canada: Contemporary Art from North North America | 3 Comments

The Hardworking Staff Totally Wants This For Christmas

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Via our ex(cellent)-graduate assistant Jeff Howanek, the USB typewriter: A New Lease On Type Think back, do you remember the last time you used a typewriter? Do you recall the resonant click clack of the keys as you plugged in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Jack Zylkin, Jeff Howanek, Marshall McLuhan, uncommongoods, USB Typewriter | 2 Comments

Who Is Taylor Wells?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

So out of the blue this pops up in the top lefthand corner of Page One of Friday’s Boston Herald: Huh? Do we know a Wells at the Herald? It’s clearly not Jonathan Wells, former ace reporter for the feisty … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bleeping Herald, Boston Herald, Jonathan Wells, Marshall McLuhan, mosaic press, NPR, Taylor Wells | 6 Comments

How Steve Jobs Changed My Life

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

There are umpteen million stories in the Mac-ed City. This has been one of them: I bought a Mac SE in 1989. It cost, as I recall, $3000 (which was real money at the time) and had slightly more computing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Copy Cop, cut and paste, Dr. Johnson, Keyboard Shuffle, loose sally of the mind, Mac SE, Mac-ed City, Marshall McLuhan, Steve Jobs | 3 Comments

James Carroll Channels Marshall McLuhan

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Author and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll (who’s not me, despite widespread local confusion over the past two decades) had a terrific piece on Monday about the difference between analog and digital clocks. Time’s face, time’s digits OUR TWO kinds … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged analog clocks, Boston Globe, digital clocks, James Carroll, Marshall McLuhan, medium is the message | 2 Comments

The New Republic Gets McLuhan Wrong

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From John McWhorter’s piece in the February 3rd edition of The New Republic: Fighting Words IN THE WAKE OF the tragedy in Tucson, numerous commentators have called for increased policing of inflammatory language. Not literal policing, of course; what these commentators … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cool medium, hot medium, John McWhorter, Marshall McLuhan, McLuhanesque, The New Republic | 3 Comments