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Back to EpisodesPMP-Partially Examined Life Crossover: Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”
Season 1
Published 5 years, 1 month ago
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Is TV rotting our minds? Mark, Brian, and the full PEL gang discuss this 1985 book that tweaks Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message" idea to say that the form and conventions of TV give us the expectation that everything must be entertaining, with disastrous consequences. How might this critique apply to the modern streaming and the Internet?
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