On Television
1996 · 104 pages
Television censors without a censor, Bourdieu argues: the clock and the ratings guarantee that only fast thinkers trading in received ideas can speak, and journalism drags politics and scholarship down with it.
★ 5.7
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
1985 · 184 pages
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.
★ 6.8