In this eloquently persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs and how “entertainment values” have corrupted even the way we think.

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America’s sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst—and the best—of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty.

From the vogue for very young models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, childhood in America today is in precipitous decline.

Neil Postman, an author and academic, and Steve Powers, a television journalist, reveal the difference between what TV news says it is presenting and what it actually delivers, entertainment fodder versus genuine news.

Technology has a powerful capacity to affect the way we perceive the world and how it works. The authors...

Neil Postman offers historical and social arguments to support his theory that the U.S. is in danger...