amusing ourselves to death造句

• In " Amusing Ourselves to Death,"
• In such earlier volumes as " Amusing Ourselves to Death,"
• We really are amusing ourselves to death, as Neil Postman pointed out a couple of decades ago.
• The title was derived from the book " Amusing Ourselves to Death " by Neil Postman.
• An example of this kind of cultural critique in English is the book " Amusing Ourselves to Death " . talk ) 12 : 49, 8 June 2010 ( UTC)
• Materially richer than our Great Depression ancestors could have hoped for, we are both working and ( to borrow the title of Neil Postman's dead-on book ) amusing ourselves to death.
• Accordingly, the production has come up with two genuinely startling special-effects demonstrations, one of which gives new piquancy to Neil Postman's notion of " amusing ourselves to death ."
• In his landmark book on TV, " Amusing Ourselves to Death, " media critic Neil Postman presented a distilled view of TV that endures-- one I still use when I give speeches about TV.
• Postman was accused of Luddism, despite his statement in the conclusion of " Amusing Ourselves to Death " that " We must not delude ourselves with preposterous notions such as the straight Luddite position ."
• Many of Stephens'journalistic arguments stem from a reaction to works by journalists such as famed critic Neil Postman ( author of " Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business " ).
• While other media and entertainment formats shape us, television is the command center, the orchestrator of all other media, New York University professor Neil Postman wrote in his 1985 book, " Amusing Ourselves to Death ."
• :Neil Postman wrote " Amusing Ourselves to Death " in 1984 with the premise that the political prophesy of " Brave New World " had proven more true than the prophecy of " 1984 ."
• Gabler's arguments about fame and celebrity are similarly indebted to Leo Braudy's " Frenzy of Renown, " just as his arguments about television and show business owe a debt to Neil Postman's " Amusing Ourselves to Death ."
• Wilonsky also cited the late Neil Postman's study, " Amusing Ourselves to Death, " which recalled that " Sesame Street " was initially assailed for merely addicting children to television at a younger age, rather than being championed for teaching them how to read.
• "One of the keys of television is that it has to move information, unlike books, which are more concerned with preserving information, " said educator Neil Postman, author of " Amusing Ourselves To Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business ."
• Neil Postman, chairman of the department of culture and communication at New York University and the author of such critical studies of the media as " Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, " said the efforts of the Lear Center struck him as timely and potentially valuable.
• "I would say McLuhan was a great thinker, but I wouldn't say he was a great scholar, because I don't think he really had the patience to work out some of the implications of what he was saying, " said Neil Postman, head of the media studies program at New York University, whose books like " Technopoly " and " Amusing Ourselves to Death, " acknowledge a heavy debt to McLuhan.
• Both books were greeted with general acclaim, with the " Oxonian Review " declaring that " " Awkwardness " is just what a work of philosophy should be ", and Scott Berkun describing " Why We Love Sociopaths " as " a second cousin to Postman s classic " Amusing Ourselves to Death " . " " Why We Love Sociopaths ", however, also drew criticism for its admittedly non-technical use of the term sociopathy.
• Morrow stated that the basis of Zigler's criticism was concern that the federal government would transfer their funding of Head Start to CTW . Also according to Morrow, these studies were utilized by critics in " Sesame Street's " later years, especially by child development psychologists Jerome and Dorothy G . Singer, who insisted the television shortened children's attention spans, and by author Neil Postman in his book " Amusing Ourselves to Death ", who believed that television could not teach children.