....back in 1985 Neil Postman warned us that television was going to destroy us in his brilliant book “Amusing Ourselves to Death.”
Postman warned that the public was addicted to amusement and that the
distraction would lead to ever-increasing totalitarian control of the
population. He argued that, if the public relied on television for its
news, we were doomed, since the medium of television could only offer
news as entertainment and commodity.
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/05/they_created_our_bundytrump_hellscape_fox_news_angry_white_audience_will_destroy_us_yet/
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we should be wary that a faux “movement” may be manufactured on the backs of real movements that have sought to upend that political and ...
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Americans “must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”...
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