Article March 23, 1987 Issue

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From Christianity Today, March 7, 1986

"Neil Postman is concerned that entertainment has become the American way of life. And in Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book for 'culture watchers and worriers,' he examines the effect television in particular has had on our society. Serious discourse, politics, religion, sports, education, news, and commerce have all been transformed by our insatiable thirst for amusement.

"Postman, who is professor of communication arts and sciences at New York University, contends that different forms of media favor particular kinds of content. He laments that in our time the medium of typography has given way to the medium of television.

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