"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.” Marshall McLuhan. Wikipedia.
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When an Idea's End Comes To Pass.
Fonzie Jumps the Shark on Happy Days "Jumping the shark is an idiom created by Jon Hein that was used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality, signaled by a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of gimmick in an attempt to keep viewers' interest, and which is taken as a sign of desperation. The phrase is based on a scene from a fifth-season episode of the sitcom Happy Days when the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark |
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Style Over Substance. “ The Medium is the Message”. The curse of the MTV generation "After 1984, Cross' star quickly dimmed. As music television station MTV grew to dominate the mainstream music scene in the U.S., Cross' physical appearance and style of music proved to be "a bad fit" for the network, and Cross' brand of adult contemporary music declined in popularit" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cross |
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First music video broadcast on MTV's first day,
August 1, 1981. "Video Killed The Radio Star". Wikipedia Thought By: Demian Hammock. On August 1, 1981. The day the radio star died. For better or worse the " The medium is the message" Marshall McLuhan . Video did kill the radio star. |