Neil Postman

Mayhem in the Making: A Political Circus, An Out-of-Control Government Bureaucracy and a Distracted Populace

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Boeing, Neil Postman, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Bureaucracy, Elections 2012, White House Dinner, Defense Spending, Pork, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the day after the next president is elected, the government as we have come to know it -- corrupt, bloated and controlled by big-money corporations, lobbyists and special interest groups -- will be largely unchanged.

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Busted: The Myth Of Reality Television

Debra Ollivier | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: American Detective, Reality TV, Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Entertainment, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Reality TV Myth, Reality Tv Addiction, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

In the early nineties I was hired to work as a story editor on one of the first reality TV shows. It was called "American Detective." Back then there were only a few of these shows and they were (and still are) cheap to produce.

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The Tea Party, Right-Wing Media and the Dog That Didn't Bark

Will Bunch | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Neil Postman, John McCain, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann, Koch Brothers, Tea Party Nation, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Christine O'donnell, Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, Fox News Channel, Elections 2012, Media News
Will Bunch

Did the Tea Party become, in that famous Sherlock Holmesian expression, the dog that did not bark? For the most part, yes. So what was all that barking that woke America up in the middle of the night? It was the right-wing media, and its echoes, that you heard.

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Jackson Media Miscoverage: Our Modern-Day "Bread and Circuses"

Bill Mann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Mann

If you needed any proof that we are now officially an entertainment-driven culture, the embarrassing spectacle of fawning coverage of the popular song-and-dance man's passing provided it.

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Iran, Al Sharpton, Sarah Palin and Myths About "Media Bias"

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Neil Postman, Al Sharpton, Media Bias, Matt Welch, Sarah Palin, Media News
Rob Asghar

When we began to receive more information than we could possibly digest, we grew able to digest only that which is tasty and entertaining -- in politics, in education, even in religion.

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My Favorite Hate Email From the Religious Right

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frank Schaeffer

The Religious Right has seduced millions of Americans with titillating hatred and lies.

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Amusing Ourselves to Death -- How to Waste Our Last (Obama) Chance

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neil Postman, Obama, News Cycle, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Enetertainment, Mainstream Media, Msm, Media, Media News
Frank Schaeffer

President Obama is a serious man trying to rescue a frivolous trivialized nation with the attention span of an inebriated jellyfish.

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Aloha, Mr. Hand

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ipod, Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Myspace, The Dumbest Generation, E.D. Hirsch, Tweens, Facebook, Robert Lowell, Teenagers, The Digital Age, Internet, Youtube, American Youth, Mark Bauerlein, Democraticization, Allan Bloom, Harry Potter, Google, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For all his reliance on social science research, in The Dumbest Generation Mark Bauerlein doesn't present any evidence to justify his assertion that this generation is the dumbest in American history.

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