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Wittgenstein's Monster Sep 26, 2025

And honestly?

Marvel needs to give us what we really want:
A What If... Nixon wore makeup?

Or better yet — drag.

#ThisDayInHistory #KennedyVsNixon #TelevisedDebate #PoliticalTheater #MediaMatters #MarvelWhatIf #AlternateHistory #DragPresidency #TVChangedEverything

teledyn 𓂀 Jun 7, 2024

In 1976 Marshall McLuhan was asked about this new phenomenon of the televised debate.

McLuhan came away disillusioned, calling the Carter/Ford spectacle “the most stupid arrangement of any debate in the history of debating”

But here's the thing: chalking up technical difficulties, forgive me if I'm mistaken, but seems to me McLuhan's advice reads like the Trump playbook…

#elections #televiseddebate #medialiteracy

https://www.openculture.com/2011/10/marshall_mcluhan_on_the_stupidest_debate_in_the_history_of_debating.html

Marshall McLuhan on the Stupidest Debate in the History of Debating (1976)

In September 1976, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford squared off in a presidential debate, and the following day, the legendary communication theorist Marshall McLuhan appeared on the TODAY show, then hosted by Tom Brokaw, to offer some almost real-time analysis of the debate.

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