Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Andrew Postman, Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business



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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Andrew Postman, Neil Postman
Language: English
Page: 203
Format: djvu
ISBN: 014303653X, 9780143036531
Publisher: Penguin

From Publishers Weekly

From the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity comes a sustained, withering and thought-provoking attack on television and what it is doing to us. Postman's theme is the decline of the printed word and the ascendancy of the "tube" with its tendency to present everythingmurder, mayhem, politics, weatheras entertainment. The ultimate effect, as Postman sees it, is the shrivelling of public discourse as TV degrades our conception of what constitutes news, political debate, art, even religious thought. Early chapters trace America's one-time love affair with the printed word, from colonial pamphlets to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. There's a biting analysis of TV commercials as a form of "instant therapy" based on the assumption that human problems are easily solvable. Postman goes further than other critics in demonstrating that television represents a hostile attack on literate culture. October 30Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Review

A brilliant, powerful and important book. -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

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