The title “Amusing ourselves to death” speaks for itself. The television is a widely available communication apparatus. In recent years we have seen the television rise and involve its self in political discourse, with talk shows and the nightly news being a main part of society, this is what Postman was afraid of. He had several opinions regarding the television; he embraced it as an effective use of communication but disliked its involvement in social and …show more content…
“And so, I raise no objection to television's junk. The best things on television are its junk, and no one and nothing is seriously threatened by it. Besides, we do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant. Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural conversations. The irony here is that this is what intellectuals and critics are constantly