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185. Innis, “Minerva’s Owl,” 5.
186. Innis, “The Problem of Space,” 130.
187. Innis, “Industrialism and Cultural Values,” 139; also Innis, “Technology and
Public Opinion in the United States” (1949; reprint, The Bias of Communication, with
Introduction by Marshall McLuhan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971), 167;
also, Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 11.
188. Myles Ruggles, Automating Interaction: Formal and Information Knowledge
in the Digital Network Economy, with a Foreword by Robert E. Babe (Cresskill, NJ:
Hampton Press, 2005). James Winter quotes David Radler, at the time president of
Hollinger Inc., then Canada’s largest newspaper chain: “I am ultimately the publisher
of all these papers, and if editors disagree with us, they should disagree with us when
they’re no longer in our employ. The buck stops with the ownership. I am responsi-
ble for meeting the payroll; therefore, I will ultimately determine what the papers say
and how they’re going to be run.” Winter, Lies the Media Tell Us, 43.
189. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 89.
190. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 89.
191. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 80–83.
192. Innis, “Technology and Public Opinion,” 179.
193. Innis, “Technology and Public Opinion,” 187, 186.
194. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 103.
195. Innis, “The English Publishing Trade in the Eighteenth Century” (1951;
reprint, The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971),
143.
196. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 82.
197. Innis, Changing Concepts of Time, 17.
198. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 77–78.
199. Innis, “Technology and Public Opinion,” 187.
200. Innis, Empire and Communications, 170
201. Harold Innis, “The Concept of Monopoly and Civilization” (1951; reprint,
Staples, Markets and Cultural Change, by Harold A. Innis, edited by Daniel Drache,
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995), 388. Edward Co-
mor is one who has extended Innisian analysis into the age of the Internet, declaring:
“The Internet’s reach and speed . . . constitute its greatest weakness. While its infra-
structure is predictably robust, the messages transmitted are extraordinarily perishable
and overwhelmingly visual. Website content is especially transient and sensational.
The lifespan of what is found on most websites ranges from hours to months.” More-
over, he remarks, the point and click content presented through visual cues reinforces
the “more general ahistorical, immediate gratification, sensual-over-intellectual
predilections” of the space-bound consumer society. Edward Comor, Consumption
and the Globalization Project: International Hegemony and the Annihilation of Time
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
202. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 76.
203. Innis, “A Plea for Time,” 79.
204. Innis, “The Problem of Space,” 106.