I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...

Postman theorized that television represents a merging of the worst aspects of telegraphy and photography - communication technologies rolled-out in the mid-19th century - by reducing, if not ...

Amusing ourselves to death. That’s what media critic Neil Postman called the phenomenon that “The Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins took to its natural extreme, penning a dystopian YA trilogy whose ...

Editor’s note: This column has been edited to restore the final sentence, which was cut off in the original version. Neil Postman’s 1985 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” was a warning about how television ...

In 1985, media scholar Neil Postman argued that we as a culture are "amusing ourselves to death." By this, he meant that the emergent media environment was occupying an increased amount of our time ...

In a March 25 Books, Laura Miller misstated that NBA coach Jason Kidd recommended Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death in an article written by the journalist Tim Cato. Cato recommended the book.

In his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman presciently warned of a few consequences of an entertainment-driven age. Among them was the temptation of celebrity-ism in which fame supplants ...