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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
It seems distant now, but once upon a time the Internet was going to save us from the menace of TV. Since the late fifties, TV has had a special role, both as the country’s dominant medium, in audience and influence, and as a bête noire for a certain strain of American intellectuals, who view it as the root of all evil. In “Amusing Ourselves to Dea... See more
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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Neil Postman, the author of the 1980s classic Amusing Ourselves to Death, wrote, “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities, and commercials.”