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Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine.

Jacques Ellul

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Jacques Ellul
Age: 82 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 6
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
French Resistance Fighter
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Sociologist
Theologian
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