Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Notes On Amusing Ourselves To Death
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
lacking a technology to advertise them, people could not attend to them, could not include them in their daily business. Such information simply could not exist as part of the content of culture. This idea—that there is a content called “the news of the day”—was entirely created by the telegraph (and since amplified by newer media), which made it
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
How often does the information that you get in the morning radio, television, or newspaper, make you alter your plans for the day? Or give you anything useful besides something to talk about? When the telegraph came along and made information transmission fast and cheap, it multiplied the information we had available to us, and created a... See more