Canadian Broadcasting Corp: The End of...

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From The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation comes Jian Ghomeshi with a look at how technology is changing and perhaps eliminating traditional media.Marshall Mcluhan fans rejoice. This is right up your alley.

CBC.ca The experts have spoken. Mass media is reported to be on its last legs. A handful of new media entities with remarkably silly names: Blogs, Vlogs, YouTube, Podcasts, and Yahoo! are leading the charge, leaving traditional forms of communications to play catch-up or get left behind.

The CBC's pop culture specialist Jian Ghomeshi ponders the fate of mass media and asks whether we are nearing a world without television, radio or print in THE END, a three-part series airing on CBC Newsworld.

With new trends in media emerging on what seems to be a daily basis, many have been predicting the fall of traditional communications for some time. There are always new trends, toys and gadgets, but which of them will survive and emerge victorious? And what will our increasingly wired, (or is that wireless), world look like in this age of instant information gratification?

Is this really the end of TV and radio as we know it?

Jian Ghomeshi is the host of THE END. David Giddens is series producer of THE END. Heaton Dyer is the Director of Programming for CBC Newsworld.

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan on CBC's "The Summer Way"

From CBC.ca: " Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan expound on violence, alienation and the electronic envelope. The clash of two great minds. (1968)".

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CBC.ca and Playboy present: Marshall McLuhan, the Man and his Message

From CBC.ca: "He was a man of idioms and idiosyncrasies, deeply intelligent and a soothsayer. He had prescient knowledge of the Internet. Although educated in literature, Marshall McLuhan was known as a pop philosopher because his theories applied to mini-skirts and the twist. For his ability to keep up with the cutting edge, one colleague called him "The Runner." Critics said he destroyed literary values. Today, McLuhan’s ideas are new again, applied to the electronic media that he predicted." Source: CBC.ca

View the clips below and click here for the Playboy interview with McLuhan direct from Columbia University

Growing up at the McLuhans'

Marshall's younger brother Maurice reminisces about childhood in Edmonton. (Radio; runs 1:47)

World is a global village

Television has transformed the world into an interconnected tribe McLuhan calls a "global village". (TV; runs 8:44)

McLuhan predicts 'world connectivity'

One day, people will learn via an electronic circuitry system, McLuhan says. (TV; runs 3:25)

A pop philosopher

Communications expert Marshall McLuhan theorizes on "hot" and "cool" media. (Radio; runs 5:26)

McLuhan for the masses

The professor publishes his theories in condensed form under the punning title The Medium is the Massage. (Radio; runs 8:00)

The destroyer of civilization

Is Marshall McLuhan contributing to literature's demise? (Radio; runs 1:33)

Gzowski interviews McLuhan

Did the eminent professor really fail grade six? (TV; runs 6:59)

It's cool not to shave

McLuhan suggests there's a subconscious reason Pierre Elliott Trudeau has grown a beard. (Radio; runs 2:11)

Homage to The Runner

Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist who was always "on the move," has died of a stroke. (Radio; runs 4:09)

Understanding McLuhan, finally

In a 1995 news report, a new medium called "the Internet" sounds a lot like the electronic circuitry system Marshall McLuhan predicted in the 1960s. (TV; runs 1:33)