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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
This is gross technological naivete. If the delivery is not the same, then the message, quite likely, is not the same.
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 wha
... See moreThe 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
Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation.