Editing Neil Postman (section)

== ''Amusing Ourselves to Death'' ==
One of Postman's most influential works is ''[[Amusing Ourselves to Death|Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business]]''. In ''Amusing'', Postman argued that by expressing ideas through visual imagery, television reduces politics, news, history and other serious topics to entertainment.<ref name=":1" /> He worried that culture would decline if the people became an audience and their public business a "vaudeville act". He also argued that television is destroying the "serious and rational public conversation" that was sustained for centuries by the [[printing press]]. Rather than the restricted information in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-four|1984]]'', he claimed the flow of distraction we experience is akin to [[Aldous Huxley]]'s ''[[Brave New World]]''.