I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...
IN 1985, author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, a book critiquing America’s television society. Thirty years later, I ...
Editor’s note: This column has been edited to restore the final sentence, which was cut off in the original version. Neil Postman’s 1985 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” was a warning about how television ...
In 1985, over a decade before the rise of the internet, smart phones and pervasive social media, one Neil Postman authored a book titled “Amusing Ourselves To Death” where, commenting on our constant ...
In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are "amusing ourselves to death." By this, he meant that the emergent media environment was occupying an increased amount of our time ...
Media Matters for America: “Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed
Lessons from Neil Postman’s magnum opus ahead of this year’s elections Benny Johnson on Virginia's redistricting election: “What that is is 51% of the population stripping away the civil right of ...
“Amusing Ourselves to Death”: News media and the public’s desire to be entertained vs. its need to be informed
What Neil Postman got right — and what he failed to predict. I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world; great upheavals, terrible struggles; wars such as one cannot imagine; and I tell ...