Television brought the brut... by Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian Sociologist

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“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”

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Name: Marshall McLuhan

Nationality: Canadian

Date of Birth: Jul 21, 1911

Date of Death: Dec 31, 1980

Profession: Sociologist

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