"Amusing Ourselves to Death" was a 1985 wake-up call we didn't know we'd need forty years later

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Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death was a 1985 wake-up call we didn't know we'd need forty years later. Postman (1931-2003), a media theorist and cultural critic, argued that television was not just changing what we watch, but how we think and communicate as a society. — Read the rest

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