Book · 1985 · Nonfiction

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Name: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Author: Neil Postman

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 184 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Orwell feared censors, Postman writes, but Huxley feared an audience too amused to care. Television has turned news and politics into show business, and every argument about screens since has borrowed his terms.

Genre

Cultural criticism

Subject

Television Media News as entertainment

Time

1985

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