Show Global Village belongs to Marshall McLuhan Dear Editor I wish to take exception with one item that appeared in the winning essay from the Human Rights Week contest The author stated that Ted Turner coined the phrase Global Village If my middle middle- aged bf brain in serves me well I seem to recall that during my college career in the late 1960 s a avery avery avery very famous writer named Marshall McLuhan published a book by that name which described the impact of television as ca a medium for shrinking the distances between various cultures of the world Although Ted Turner was named as Time Timet t magazines magazine's 1991 Man of the Year and much was made of CNN's contribution to the Global Village theory Turner was not the originator of the phrase Sincerely Helen W. W ones W. Jones 0 E 1 h L Instructor li 1 i English ns tru cor t |