Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Postman, Neil

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

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture...
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Author: Neil Postman
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Postman, Neil

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

$51.80

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

$51.80
Author: Neil Postman
Format: CD
Language: English
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.

Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 04/01/2013
Binding Type: CD
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 5.70h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781441767370

About the Author
Postman, Neil: -

Neil Postman (1931-2003) was chairman of the Department of Communication Arts at New York University and founder of its Media Ecology program. He wrote more than twenty books. His son Andrew Postman is the author of five books, and his work appears in numerous publications.

Riggenbach, Jeff: -

Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence.



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