If laws were products, this would be self-inflicted brand damage. Commercial feedback loops, including revenue and brand value of good products, would eventual

If laws were products, this would be self-inflicted brand damage. Commercial feedback loops, including revenue and brand value of good products, would eventually lead to withdrawal of the bad product. Imagine a law to protect lawmakers from undue media influence, in order to improve the quality of their future lawmaking.. Paging Marshall McLuhan scholars, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan McLuhan proposes that media themselves, not the content they carry, should be the focus of study—popularly quoted as "the medium is the message". His insight is that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role not by the content it delivers, but by its own characteristics. McLuhan points to the light bulb as a clear demonstration of this. A light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles, or a television has programs, but it is a medium that has a social effect; that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces at night that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content.