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Postman theorized that television represents a merging of the worst aspects of telegraphy and photography - communication technologies rolled-out in the mid-19th century - by reducing, if not ...

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 his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman sounded a warning about media ownership and the danger to the public when it’s fed a steady diet of salacious, trivial, and factually dubious ...

Almost 40 years ago, a profound book blasted onto the scene. In “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” Neil Postman predicted that media and politics would be treated as forms of ongoing entertainment. His ...

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 ...