New Republic
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, just another trendy
overhyped attack on the way we live now. Hadn’t people always loved pop
culture…
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How Entertainment Mangled Public Discourse
Katha Pollitt
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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, just another trendy overhyped attack on the way we live now. Hadn’t people always loved pop culture…
