American media critic and educator whose Amusing Ourselves to Death argued that television was transforming American public discourse from argument to entertainment.
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Huxley was right, not Orwell — the danger is not that truth will be suppressed but that it will drown in a sea of irrelevance. Television restructures public discourse toward entertainment. Technopoly: the surrender of culture to the sovereignty of technology. The End of Education: education requires a narrative that gives meaning.
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