Amusing Ourselves to Death
I think it accurate to call television a curriculum.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of “being informed” by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is
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