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

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    …enduring concern with language, in Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985), a lively critique of television that would become his most influential work. He argued that television, as a medium that must express ideas primarily through alluring visual imagery, reduces politics, news, history,…

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