Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman Author - new book

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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is m… More...

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever.It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of  entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals.“A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Undefined>Undefined>Undefined, Blackstone Audio, Inc. Core >1<

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ISBN: 9781441767387

CD-Audio, [PU: Blackstone Audiobooks], In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our p… More...

CD-Audio, [PU: Blackstone Audiobooks], In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most pleasurably apprehended when they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on television has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation. Postman argues that public discourse--the advancing of arguments in logical order for the public good, once a hallmark of American culture--is being converted from exposition and explanation to entertainment., Media Studies<

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2010, ISBN: 9781441767387

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Hörbuch Neil Postman , Blackstone Pub, 01.10.2010, Blackstone Pub, 2010

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