VITAMEDIAS
McLuhan's Messages, Echoing in Iraq Coverage: Maybe it is no accident that in "Understanding Media," McLuhan's brief chapter on weapons, follows his long chapter on television. He proposed that "all technology can plausibly be regarded as weapons." And now, in his own muddled way, he seems to be right on target. Television cameras are weapons. The battle in Iraq is being fought with cool weapons mounted onto hot ones. It's a warm war in the global village.