Amusing Ourselves to Death
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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…citing neil postman's media theory on television and political entertainment
“Just a straightforward argument in Neil Postman's great book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, where he says that the thing television is going to do to politics is make us believe politics should always be entertaining. And that's going to make politics a space dominated by entertainers. I give that book to everybody all the time. It blew my mind.”
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