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4/22/10: The Medium is the Message

photo: Susan E Adams/Creative Commons via flickr
photo: Susan E Adams/Creative Commons via flickr

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, Utah – In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan said that "the medium is the message," that the way we get information influences the way we understand that information. But what does that mean some 50 years later as you get your news via blogs and twitter and aggregators? Huffington Post contributor Kimberly Butler set out to answer the question. She created a series of vlogs (that's a video blog) with journalists and media observers. Thursday, Butler and NPR news analyst Juan Williams join us.

  • Kimberly Butler's Is the Medium the Message appears on the Huffington Post.

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