Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Statement 1 is true and statement 2 is false: media are indeed neither neutral nor value free carriers, but the denial that technologies have their own characteristics is wrong.

Statement 1 is correct because every medium shapes what passes through it, so it is never an empty vessel simply moving information about.

Statement 2 is incorrect because each communication technology in fact does possess its own distinct physical, technical, symbolic and environmental features.

The word no in statement 2 flips a true idea into a false one, since the reality is that every technology has such a unique set.

These two statements actually point the same way once statement 2 is read as it should be, that media differ by their built in properties.

McLuhan's the medium is the message captures exactly why no channel is a neutral or featureless container.