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Flat White

Rebooting democracy

15 February 2017

4:25 PM

15 February 2017

4:25 PM

Like prophets of old, McLuhan’s warnings “the media is the message” has gone as unheeded as the Buggles observation that “video killed the radio star”

The inexorable evolution of the media from print through radio and television to the omniscient and all intrusive hydra that is social media has proved no more stoppable than a tsunami.

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