"Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman" - Book PReview - Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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The Media Metaphor Shift in American Public Discourse
The idea that there is a content called the news of the day was entirely created by the telegraph and then amplified by newer media. How people think about time and space will be greatly influenced by the grammatical features of their language, he says. We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities, but by what it claims is significant, writes David Frum.
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