Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Buy Now
By using these links, you support READO. We receive an affiliate commission without any additional costs to you.
Description
Book Information
Posts
The first thing that struck me when I started reading was that this book was very hard to read, at least for me as a non-native speaker. I can only wonder whether the complex language the author chose was on purpose, after all the very point of this book is to demonstrate the superiority of the printing press over the television and that we as a society and as a culture are basically dumbing down as a result of watching top much of it. I can't get past the fact that he's right, especially since at the time of this writing a former reality tv star is the most powerful man on the planet. Other than that the arguments aren't new, they just might be presented in a bit of a different light. But if television is this bad already then how bad is the internet? But there already is a book about that...
Description
Book Information
Posts
The first thing that struck me when I started reading was that this book was very hard to read, at least for me as a non-native speaker. I can only wonder whether the complex language the author chose was on purpose, after all the very point of this book is to demonstrate the superiority of the printing press over the television and that we as a society and as a culture are basically dumbing down as a result of watching top much of it. I can't get past the fact that he's right, especially since at the time of this writing a former reality tv star is the most powerful man on the planet. Other than that the arguments aren't new, they just might be presented in a bit of a different light. But if television is this bad already then how bad is the internet? But there already is a book about that...