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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Written By : Neil Postman Narrator : Jeff Riggenbach Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 5 hours Type : TV Non Fiction Price : $39.95 $14.95 Buy Now! "A sustained, withering and thought-provoking attack on television and what it is doing to us. Postman goes further than other critics in demonstrating that television represents a hostile attack on literate culture."Publishers Weekly "A brilliant, powerful and important book.This is a brutal indictment Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one."Washington Post Book World "[Postman] starts where Marshall McLuhan left off, constructing his arguments with the resources of a scholar and the wit of a raconteur."Christian Science Monitor "A lucid and very funny jeremiad about how public discourse has been degraded." Mother Jones In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most pleasurably apprehended when they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on television has little tolerance for argument, hypothesis, or explanation. Postman argues that public discoursethe advancing of arguments in logical order for the public good, once a hallmark of American culture is being converted from exposition and explanation to entertainment. Other titles you may be interested in How to Watch TV News Written By : Neil Postman and Steve Powers Narrator : Jeff Riggenbach Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Length : 4 hours 30 minutes Type : TV Non Fiction Price : $39.95 $12.95 Neil Postman, an author and academic, and Steve Powers, a television journalist, reveal the difference between what TV news says it is presenting and what it actually delivers, entertainment fodder versus genuine news. They explain why TV news has become a “cash cow,” pointing to the symbiotic... More... Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker Written By : Brian Hayles and Donald Tosh Narrator : Full Cast Performance Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 1 hour 40 minutes Type : Sci-Fi TV Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic Price : $13.49 Face one of the most powerful enemies every encountered. More... Doctor Who - Tales from the Tardis - Volume One Written By : Various Narrator : Full Cast Performance Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 9 hours 30 minutes Type : Sci-Fi TV Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic Price : $36.75 Twelve stories of excitement and adventure in distant times and places. Over 9 hours on one download! More... Doctor Who - The Enemy of the World Written By : David Whitaker Narrator : Full Cast Performance Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 2 hours 25 minutes Type : Sci-Fi TV Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic Price : $18.49 An exclusive recording of a "Lost" Doctor Who television adventure. More... Around the World in 80 Days Written By : Michael Palin Narrator : Michael Palin Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Length : 7 hours 35 minutes Type : Adventurers & Explorers Biographical British TV Non Fiction Price : $31.99 Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. More...