McLuhan on Advertising . Between these poles stand the huge and ambiguous entertainment industries. As the new media unfold their powers the entertainment industries swallow more and more of the old business culture. The movie industry is thus an inseparable portion of the advertising industry in providing the necessary drama of consumption, in which the ads merely provide the news. I see no point in schools at all.
Man is returned to the tradition of the hunter . . .
You can learn more in an advertising agency than you'll ever learn in a university. The fact to learn is that advertising is a service industry that provides its satisfactions quite independent of the product, and that people are increasingly tending to get their satisfactions from the ad rather than the product.