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==Works== {{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?7-1/life-career-neil-postman "Life and Career of Neil Postman", January 14, 1988], [[C-SPAN]]}} Postman wrote 20 books and more than 200 articles in academic and popular publications including ''[[The New York Times|The New York Times Magazine]]'', ''[[The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review]]'', ''[[Harvard Educational Review]],'' ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[Stern (magazine)|Stern]]'' and ''[[Le Monde]]''. He was the editor of the quarterly journal ''[[Institute of General Semantics|ETC: A Review of General Semantics]]'' from 1976 to 1986. In 1976, Postman taught a course for NYU credit on [[CBS-TV]]'s ''[[Sunrise Semester]]'' called "Communication: the Invisible Environment".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19760919&id=aGRNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3453,5145996|title=Sunrise Semester begins 13th Season|date=September 19, 1976|work=Lakeland Ledger|access-date=May 11, 2013}}</ref> He was also a contributing editor at ''[[The Nation]]''. Several{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} of his articles were reprinted after his death in the quarterly journal, ''ETC: A Review of General Semantics'' as part of a 75th anniversary edition in October 2013.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24761802|title=ETC: A Review of General Semantics|volume= 70|number=4 |date=October 2013|journal=The Information Environment|pages=468β479|author=Neil Postman |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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