A review by chuxsox
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

3.0

I thought this book was thought-provoking and that the author made many excellent observations about our technology-crazy society, and though he focused primarily on the adverse effects of television-based entertainment on the ability of people to apprehend and process complex information. He obviously has negative feelings about it and how it has found its way into every facet of our lives. His complaint is that it always must present information primarily as entertainment, because television is suited only to entertain, even when it is being used for any other purpose.