Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781441767387 (144176738X)
Publish date: December 1st 1998
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Technology,
Culture,
Education,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology
The book didn't live up to its title, even though it was preaching to the very much converted. Maybe it's like the old show biz joke: a man goes to a booking agent and offers to show him a once-in-a-lifetime act. He then sets himself on fire and disappears. "Great, what else do you do?"
A must-read, especially if you write for a living, or watch any amount of TV news, ever.
If you've read, and liked, [b:Brave New World|5129|Brave New World|Aldous Huxley|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SJW829TEL._SL75_.jpg|3204877], this is a great non-fiction companion book.
I've never really been a TV addict. Oh, I've watched plenty of television fare in my time, but I've always been more interested in comics and books, I think, because of their permanence. TV, until the advent of the videocassette recorder, had been extremely ephemeral.The ephemeral nature of TV, whic...
12 years ago
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