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	In the Agora: Is TV Good for You, or Are We Still Amusing Ourselves to Death?
		In one of the lengthy first posts on my old blog, I reviewed Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is regarded by those in the extreme anti-television camp (which I am not) as something of a holy writ.
		Amusing Ourselves to Death is the title of a 1985 book by Neil Postman, the late professor of media ecology at New York University.
		Amusing Ourselves is a book that should be read and discussed by as many people as possible.
	www.intheagora.com /archives/2005/10/is_tv_good_for.html (1495 words)

	Review of Amusing Ourselves to Death
		The reason I even read "Amusing Ourselves To Death" is a long story, but summarized it goes something like this;- last September I was given a TV by my roommate at the time, who had an extra one (I, having no TV of my own at the moment).
		And this is why the album "Amused to Death" had the power to inspire me to flights of hyperbole such as I unleashed in our last issue.
		We are all slowly amusing ourselves to death.
	www.rogerwaters.org /nowthis.html (2663 words)

	Amusing Ourselves to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He acknowledges that school curriculums are integrating television and computers into their classrooms with increasing frequency.
		He argues that these uses of media do not equip the student with the ability to question the nature of media; they merely provide the student with study guides that are amusing and entertaining--something that Postman argues is fundamentally against the process of learning.
		Roger Waters' 1992 album "Amused to Death" was, in part, inspired by and deals with some of the same subject matter as Postman's book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death (1158 words)

	Amused to Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amused to Death is a solo album by former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music).
		Amused to Death reached #21 on The Billboard 200, aided by "What God Wants, Part I", which hit #4 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1992.
		The album title "Amused to Death" was attached to material that Waters began working on during the Radio KAOS tour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amused_to_Death (1030 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Amused to Death Already?: Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death 20 ...
		Politically Postman was a solid Democrat, and indeed the cover of my copy of Amusing Ourselves to Death, his best known work, shows the features of Ronald Reagan, evidently on the cathode ray tube, with a clown's red nose in situ.
		Personally, the most serious point against Postman is that Amusing Ourselves to Death apparently inspired pompmeister Roger Waters of The Wall fame to record the album Amused to Death, no doubt as turgid and bombastic as most of his other works.
		All this can obscure the fact that Amusing Ourselves to Death, published in 1985, is a bracing, provocative examination of the deleterious effect of television on our lives.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000321.php (2519 words)

	Neil Postman Online
		Informing Ourselves To Death, given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) in Stuttgart, sponsored by IBM-Germany October 11, 1990.
		Guest Writer Andrew Postman: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Amusing Ourselves to Death by His Dad, Neil Postman Pressthink January 20, 2006.
		Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.
	www.bigbrother.net /~mugwump/Postman (355 words)

	AlterNet: Remembering Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He wrote one of the great books of media criticism of our time, "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business," which even when it was published in 1985 all but predicted Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hollywood-style gubernatorial campaign and the media frenzy that would accompany it.
		Given the timing of Postman's death on Oct. 5, just two days before the California recall election, it's tempting to think that Postman foresaw the outcome, had understood it all too well, and decided that sticking around for it would offer few surprises.
		At the beginning of "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Postman pointed to two competing visions of the future.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16940 (977 words)

	DemocracyRising.US - Amusing Ourseleves to Death
		Amusing Ourselves to Death is the name of Neil Postman's 1985 classic that weighed in on the debate between Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.
		And as we amuse ourselves to death, our elected leaders lead us into unforgivable wars.
		And three, read Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death and Hedges' War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning.
	democracyrising.us /content/view/499/3 (592 words)

	SIVACRACY.NET: 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' 20 Years Later
		And he could always spark one if one were not readily available at the time.
		Amusing Ourselves to Death by His Dad, Neil Postman" href="http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/01/30/ams_intro.html">Andrew Postman: Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Amusing Ourselves to Death by His Dad, Neil Postman:...
		A student of Dad’s, a teacher himself, says his own students are more responsive, not less, to Amusing Ourselves than they were five or ten years ago.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/siva/archives/002728.html (612 words)

	Review: postman
		Amusing Ourselves to Death was published in 1985.
		Huxley feared we would be happily distracted to death.
		When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”
	www.writingsite.com /pages/reviews/postman_amusing.htm (330 words)

	Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » Blogging Ourselves to Death?
		In that course I take them through the classics – from Plato and Aristotle through today – and years later when former students write or call to say hello the thing they remember is the media fast.
		Like the media fast, Amusing Ourselves is a call to action.
		Amusing Ourselves, instead warns that as a society we allow and encourage the advent of new technologies without ever first reflecting on what consequences they will bring.
	marccooper.com /blogging-ourselves-to-death (3112 words)

	Amusing Ourselves To Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By NeilPostman?
		However, as media thesis are not for everyone, could I plug the musical version of the book (kind of) - Roger Water's album Amused to Death, which seems to cover much the same ground.
		I'm reminded of the movie-in-a-novel InfiniteJest (in InfiniteJest by DavidFosterWallace), which is said to be so entertaining that people will continue to watch it repeatedly while slowly starving to death.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?AmusingOurselvesToDeath (197 words)

	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
		Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
		They are often unable to employ the higher level reasoning skills which take concentration and other characteristics.
		Neil Postman begins his prophetic work Amusing Ourselves to Death with a comparison of the visions presented by George Orwell in his much talked about book, 1984, and the “equally chilling” vision expostulated by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article3933.html (1661 words)

	Colossians Three Sixteen » (Deathly) Amusing
		This has been one of those books that I always saw reference, it was in my “to read” pile for a looooooooooong time, and when I finally did read it, kicked myself for not reading sooner.
		Postman’s analysis is startling in its portrayal of a culture that is slowly numbing itself to death with entertainment, a culture that strikingly resembles our own.
		Read Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.
	www.colossiansthreesixteen.com /archives/164 (642 words)

	The Mind of Alan: Amusing Ourselves to Death
		The Mind of Alan: Amusing Ourselves to Death
		An interesting RSS feed today from RZIM.org, "Amusing Ourselves to Death." A great caution to our age - where entertainment is more readily available than ever...
		An interesting RSS feed today from RZIM.org, "Amusing Ourselves to Death." A great caution to our age -- where entertainment is more readily available than ever...
	www.lonelywind.com /blog/alan/archives/2005/05/amusing_ourselv.shtml (314 words)

	Media Nugget : Amusing Ourselves to Death : Neil Postman
		Postman's book, subtitled "Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business," postulates that while we may have avoided a world dominated by Orwellian fascism, we are in very real danger of slipping into Aldous Huxley's vision of oblivion via irrelevance.
		Amusing Ourselves to Death lives in the Print category
		This page is part of Media Nugget, a daily dose of pop culture, featuring movies, music, literature, food, etc..
	www.medianugget.com /1997/09/amusing_ourselv.html (201 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Amusing Ourselves to Death (A Methuen paperback): Books: Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death is certainly of this ilk - even if it is not in the same league as these truly excellent books.
		It is, I think, because these slim volumes act as well-crafted-bullets to hit the targets the authors choose that they are so engaging.
		The consequences of the 'immediate gratification culture' and the loss of the ability to think are explored in depth.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Methuen-paperback/dp/0413404404 (1120 words)

	Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		By bringing together in compact form all of the arts of show business -- music, drama, imagery, humour, celebrity -- the television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital.
		To understand why, we must remind ourselves that capitalism, like science and liberal democracy, was an outgrowth of the Enlightment.
		Its principal theorists, even its most prosperous practitioners, believed capitalism to be based on the idea that both buyer and seller are sufficiently mature, well informed and reasonable to engage in transactions of mutual self-interest.
	www.mat.upm.es /~jcm/neil-postman--capitalism.html (663 words)

	A Slice of Infinity: "Amusing Ourselves to Death", by Stuart McAllister
		A Slice of Infinity: "Amusing Ourselves to Death", by Stuart McAllister
		The apostle John may not have envisioned a world such as ours when he cautioned against being blinded by love for the world, but God's Word is exceptionally relevant: "The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever" (1 John 2:17).
		He invites us to consider whether we are pursuing that which is true life, or whether we are more accurately "amusing ourselves to death."
	www.rzim.org /slice/slicetran.php?sliceid=893 (575 words)

	Amazon.ca: Amusing Ourselves To Death: Books: Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		I have laughed at that seemingly ridiculous prediction in the past, because today in the first decade of the twenty-first century, we seem to generally be harried, stressed, busy people who do not have enough time in the day for all the activities and demands which fill our schedules and minds.
		Yet despite all this busyness, we are clearly still finding large amounts of time to spend watching TV and entertaining ourselves in other ways.
		If anything, Amusing Ourselves to Death almost acts as a hey-look-at-what-social-trend-I-just-discovered book without giving us a way out of the mess.
	www.amazon.ca /Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Neil-Postman/dp/0140094385 (2665 words)

	Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (Phil Gyford: Writing)
		Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (Phil Gyford: Writing)
		Well the thing is, I have to write an essay about Neil Postman's 'Amusing ourselves to death' on his TV-critism and I was wondering if you could help me out with some points, because I'm afraid that I don't get everything right!
		Neil Postman's “Amusing Ourselves to Death” was published in 1985.
	www.gyford.com /phil/writing/2004/09/26/amusing_ourselve.php (2738 words)

	It's a Brave New World
		It's apparently common knowledge now that Roger Waters derived the title of the album 'Amused to Death' from that of the book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', by Neil Postman.
		'The Division Bell/Cybernetics and Society' concept might then be an attempt to outdo, or respond to Waters' 'Amused to Death/Amusing Ourselves to Death' concept.
		One example of this can be seen expressed in the movie 'The Wall', where Pink, a popular musician, is presented as a sort of fascist dictator.
	www.angelfire.com /co/1x137/huxley.html (808 words)

	Amusing Ourselves to Death
		Book Review: Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" is a great read.
		Postman helps us to understand the implications of our image-based culture, and his writing is crisp, lucid, and crackles everywhere with flashes of amusing insight.
		I could get deeper into this subject but I have to get back to my video screens.
	www.command-post.com /amusing.htm (684 words)

	Amazon.com: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business: Books: Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Neil Postman's book 'Amusing Ourselves To Death' is an excellent look at the world today (more accurately in 1985).
		A careless reading of "Amusing Ourselves to Death" will reveal a string of cliches about the modern era of industry and sense of participation in it: that our politicians are image-focused, "news-of-the-day" is typically useless, and our preachers and teachers are entertainers primarily.
		This book is hack, if only in the sense that the ideas he presents were of grave concern to Plato.
	www.amazon.com /Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/0140094385 (2359 words)

	Soothing Ourselves to Death - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		I admit I prefer traditional hymns, but even so, I'm convinced that much of the music being written for the church today reflects an unfortunate trend—slipping across the line from worship to entertainment.
		Evangelicals are in danger of amusing ourselves to death, to borrow the title of the classic Neil Postman book.
		This trend is evident not just in theater-like churches where musicians—with their guitars and bongo drums—often perform at ear-splitting levels.
	www.ctlibrary.com /ct/2006/april/15.116.html (397 words)

	Are we amusing ourselves to death? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		And this would degrade serious thought and moral responsibility.
		Huxley’s prophecy of death by entertainment comes closer to the Western truth.
		But both Huxley and Orwell failed to penetrate to the inner nature of this moral and spiritual decline of our day.
	www.gospel-herald.com /wieland/amusing_to_death/amusing_to_death.htm (172 words)

	SciGuy: America 2007: Amusing ourselves to death?
		Some of you have probably read Neal Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, an anti-television diatribe.
		Posted by: rick roberts at December 15, 2006 09:17 AM Something's funky with the math in those statements - if you convert 3,543 hours into days and then subtract all of the days spent with TV radio and the internet, you've got more than 34 days leftover.
		To this "amusing oneself to death" theme one should add the live professional sports and Hollywood entertainment industry as well as recreational drug use, much more costly than the internet or even 100 channel satellite TV.
	blogs.chron.com /sciguy/archives/2006/12/america_2007_am.html (2437 words)

	Amusing Ourselves to Death [Free Republic]
		Television has become, so to speak, the background radiation of the social and intellectual universe, the all-but-imperceptible residue of the electronic big bang of a century past, so familiar and so thoroughly integrated with American culture that we no longer hear its faint hissing in the background or see the flickering grey light.
		mostly we look to distract ourselves from stresses and questions to which answers are a mystery; and,therefore, unsettling.
		Actually being in the moment with the people we are with; or are surrounded by is an art we have largely lost.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a49551119c7.htm (4860 words)

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