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Reddit mentions of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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| Release date | December 2005 |
Does anyone have an opinion on the quoted book?
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By Neil Postman
IMO with very few exceptions, journalists have done a good job of reporting every blip but a piss-poor job of helping people understand what those blips add up to. They have made the public savant-idiots: we have heard so much about everything -- blip! blip! blip! blip! -- that we end up knowing nothing at all.
That is exactly why I came to this sub-reddit in the first place, and why I've ended up participating: to try to sort out what is indisputable fact, what is interesting speculation, what is interesting but non-essential, etc.
I have found Seth Abramson's work in my personal sorting-out process to be extremely useful -- and far more useful than the confusing "battle of the talking heads" that goes on at CNN, for example. The coverage at The Atlantic has been stellar, but it tends to be siloed where Seth finds interesting and revealing bridges across silos.
I thoroughly agree that we are at a moment when truth is under daily, cynical assault. But I think Abramson generally does a better job of separating "this is true" from "this might be true" than most of what passes for journalism these days.
P.S. Used carefully, digital as a medium is far superior to TV for purposes of sorting out truth from speculation. CNN, MSNNC, Fox et al are mostly useful for Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Abramson isn't perfect, but he's light years away from spreading Pizzagate-like nonsense. I think most of us can read what he has to say without getting carried away.
The media is just selling a product - this is what they think people want. Keep in mind that news isn't really NEWS as such...it's an entertainment product that is generated to sell the items featured in the commericials\advertisements.
Read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman...it pretty clearly lays out how news has killed itself by turning into entertainment.
Only to people who haven't read Amusing Ourselves to Death
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0023ZLLH6
and haven't seen the future as Verne did with Paris in the Twentieth Century
https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Twentieth-Century-Jules-Verne/dp/034542039X
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