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Audio Course
Business & Career
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Introduction
0:00
2:35
Episodes
Transcript
0. Introduction
2:35
1. Opening the Conversation: Praise and the Book’s Purpose
4:21
2. From Metaphor to Media: The First Steps of Part I
4:38
3. Typographic America: The Power of the Printed Word
4:07
4. The Peek‑a‑Boo World: Visual Saturation and Distraction
7:51
5. Show Business Takes the Stage: Politics, Religion, and Entertainment
4:49
6. The Image‑Manager and the Decline of the Speechwriter
3:56
7. From Print to Pixels: The Shift to the Age of Television
4:21
8. The Age of Show Business (Part II – Early Chapters)
5:16
9. The Huxleyan Warning: Pleasure as Control
4:14
10. Now…This! The Fragmented News Cycle
3:54
11. Beyond Television: Media Ecology in the Digital Age
4:24
12. Putting It All Together: Notes, Bibliography, and the Path Forward
4:58
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