James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” the 1985 book that looks at how a medium of communication influences the messages people receive and details the way television, which presents all content as entertainment, handicaps our ability to engage in serious matters like self-governance.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/
Do TV and Videos Ruin Our Ability To Think? Neil Postman Reveals All in “Amusing Ourselves to Death”
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