Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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I had to read this for a journalism class, and it was torture. Postman seems to use an awful lot of words to say what could have been expressed in just a few. Yes, he's intelligent, but his point is fairly basic and should be stated so. Most people will not want to read this because many parts are hard to grasp, and he goes on and on. Was this his master's thesis or something? Totally unreadable for people of today.
Postman says a number of negative things about TV while claiming that he is not against TV. Surely he could have given the same message in an essay instead of a whole book. He's not the first to say that people don't think for themselves much anymore and are too influenced by the media. Others have said it better, though, and have it pertain more to today. |
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