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

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. 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.” -C

. He wrote more than twenty books. Neil Postman (1931–2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program

“I can’t think of a more prophetic, more thoughtful, more necessary – and yes, more entertaining – book about media culture.” –Victor Navasky, National Book Award-winning author of The Art of Controversy “All I can say about Neil Postman’s brilliant Amusing Ourselves to Death is: Guilty As Charged.” –Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons “As a fervent evangelist of the age of Hollywood, I publicly opposed Neil Postman’s dark picture of our media-saturated future. He accurately foresaw that the young would inherit a frantically all-consuming media culture of glitz, gossip, and greed.” –Camille Paglia “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. But time has proved Postman right. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see

How does technology affect culture? Marc Baldwin Postman wrote this book in 1985, and he was way ahead of his time!His primary criticism of the "Age of Show Business" is that all discussion, debate, and learning has been subjugated to a 30-second spot. No one has time for lengthy discussions or delving into the depths of difficult discussions or learning. You can't argue that he was spot on in much of his criticism. We don't even like phone calls anymore because they require too much commitment and too m. Superb Title and book A truer Title has never been written. Published in 1985, Mr. Postman predicted with depressing accuracy the declining intellectual arc of the United States. While it leans towards pedantry on occasion (I do too often), he exposes the dangers in our insatiable demand for gratification, the faster the better. He could have written this book tomorrow, and now I'm even more depressed.. "Orwell or Huxley? Or both?" according to Phineas M. Hanks. Written in 1985, this book has maintained its place as one of the foremost critiques of the effects of television on western society. Postman was a scholar with acute perception. To read him is to wish you had sat in his classroom. For impatient types who tend to flip past the Roman numerals: don't skip the short foreword. It offers an important juxtaposition of Huxley with Orwell and reveals the social prophetic motif which frames Postman's subsequent obs