Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“But then that thing, Neil Postman had, he wrote this brilliant book in like 1984, right? Called Amusing Ourselves to Death. And it was about Ronald Reagan getting elected. And it was basically, he said, we've gone from reading newspapers to watching the news on TV. And his big take was when the news got music, he knew our civilization was over.”

“There's a great, it's not a controversy. It's a Neil Postman argument that he makes in Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is always one of my books I recommend to people.”