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	The Postman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Postman (1985) is a post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin.
		His reputation as a real postman builds not because of a deliberate fraud (at least initially) but because people are desperate to believe.
		Eventually, in the third section, as the Postman joins forces with the forces of Cyclops in a war against an influx of 'hypersurvivalists' (the concept of survivalists taken to a slave-owning, misogynistic extreme), he begins to find that the survivalists are being pressed from the Rogue River area to the south as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Postman (532 words)

	Neil Postman's Criticisms of the Television Medium
		Postman’s concern is that modern culture reduces everything, which prior to the Age of television was held sacred and important, to the realm of entertainment.
		Postman’s assertion is that people in their multitudes, under the irresistible influence of the resonance of the press were always ready and willing to listen to public speakers performing oratory for hours on end in the name of the furtherance of political education.
		Postman believes the former to be markedly inferior; it records the world rather than comments on it, for which language is needed, language that has categorised a world of flux and infinite variety in a way that is not possible in a photograph.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Students/jog9901.html (2685 words)

	The Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Eventually, in the third section, as the Postman joins forces with the forces of Cyclops in a war against an influx of survivalists, he begins to find that the survivalists are being pressed from the south as well (Cyclops' land is in Oregon).
		Suite101.com: Postman Pat Delivers the Goods Again Overview of the 2004 revival of the classic kids show, looking at revisions to the format and a video release.
		Postman Pat Includes puzzles and games, audio clips, virtual cards, free email, video, desktop theme, stories and gallery.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-The_Postman.html (631 words)

	Online NewsHour: Online Forum with Neil Postman
		Dr. Postman is the head of Culture and Communications at New York University.
		I tend to agree with Neil Postman that there is a definite limit to the value of new technology.
		Postman is no more than a contrarian, and probably making a good living as such.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/january96/postman_1-17.html (2144 words)

	Technopoly by Neil Postman - A Book Review by Scott London
		Postman has emerged in recent years as one of America's most eloquent and outspoken critics of technology and in this book he elaborates on themes that will no doubt be familiar to readers of his earlier books, most notably Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985).
		A "Technopoly" (a word Postman capitalizes throughout the book) is a society that believes that "the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor and thought is efficiency, that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgment...
		Postman describes the rise of new "control systems" to manage information, such as statistics, opinion polls, SAT and IQ tests, etc. These are predicated on the fallacy that information can be scientifically measured and stored, he says.
	www.scottlondon.com /reviews/postman.html (545 words)

	PressThink: Neil Postman (1931-2003): Some Recollections
		Postman, world famous media scholar, was famous among students and friends for refusing any technology thought to “improve” something in which he had never requested improvements.
		Postman had a big audience and gave many speeches in Germany, where several of his books were best sellers during the 1980s, in part because there was so much in American life he simply rejected.
		Neil Postman was a thinker in the Socratic sense.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2003/10/07/postman_life.html (11194 words)

	The Postman Always Rings Twice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 novel by James M. Cain that was made into three movies.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice.html (392 words)

	The Postman Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Postman lucks out in the first village he comes across, Pineview, when one of the sixteen-year old letters in his mailbag is addressed to a blind woman.
		After the Postman leaves the next day, Bethlehem rolls into town with his army and is angered by the sight of an American flag flying over the town's post office.
		The Postman's falsehood becomes an ideal that others find inspiration and purpose in, and his original motivations become unimportant in the face of the prominence that others place in what it represents.
	users.aol.com /aleong1631/postman.html (1072 words)

	The Postman Syndrome CD Reviews
		The foundation of The Postman Syndrome is metalcore, but there are a multitude of arty tangents to the band's unique sound and style.
		The Postman Syndrome defies categorization and it's refreshing to hear a band that is willing to follow its own muse rather than follow trends or other tried and true formulas.
		The Postman Syndrome is Matt Lupo on guitar, trumpet, and vocals; Chris Alfano on guitar and vocals; Jim Stang on guitar and vocals, Brett Bamberger on bass and vocals; and Mike Somers on drums and percussion.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/p/postmansyndrome.htm (438 words)

	Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For Postman and Weingartner (1969), subversive teaching is the conscious act of teaching with the "inquiry method" and in doing so, realizing that this changes everything.
		Postman and Weingartner give much attention to challenging the traditional methods of teaching quite directly, as well as suggesting alternative approaches.
		In a later chapter Postman and Weingartner begin to discuss establishing environments for learning that are not based on teaching children "trivia," but instead based on helping children to create their own meanings.
	www.inspiredinside.com /learning/postman1.htm (1014 words)

	PressThink: Remembering Neil Postman, 1931-2003
		Postman in spite of the number if friends I had in the communications department was one of my great regrets from my time at NYU.
		Postman and Baird, are the only true educators I have experienced...true learning "because of" and not "in spite of" the educators....learning how to ask questions creating the motivation to learn further and pass learning on.
		Postman's critical perspective is still with me, and I realize now that even though I never met him and never sat with him in a class; he taught me the invaluable lesson that not everything is what it seems and that I must look deeper to find the real truth.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/25/neil_tribute.html (6424 words)

	The End of Education By Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postman refers to his narratives as "gods" in the sense that they tell of origins and futures, give meaning to the world and provide a sense of "community", "personal identity" "continuity" and "purpose".
		Postman argues that we can improve teaching by getting rid of all textbooks which are, in his opinion, "the enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning".
		Like Postman, instructional designers determine in advance the goals to be achieved as well as the knowledge and experiences to be internalized by the learners.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /~elmurphy/emurphy/postman.html (1298 words)

	TIJ Book Reviews: Neil Postman, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century
		What seems to bother Postman most is the fact that the great innovators (whether Bill Gates or Bill Clinton) seem to have no frame of reference other than their own experience, and that experience is lamentably that of the twentieth century.
		Neil Postman does not oppose information; he merely wishes that it be allocated to its proper epistemological category and that it be interpreted in terms of a sustained moral discourse.
		Postman’s earlier works seem to me to be more focussed, more insightful and more compelling.
	www.innovation.cc /book-reviews/postman.htm (860 words)

	Neil Postman: Stirring Up Trouble About Technology, Language, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postman: Well, the notion of childhood, while it might conceivably have a biological basis, is largely a social artifact.
		Postman: Well, for parents who are aware of what’s happening and who have the time and affluence to exert influence on the socializing of their own children, there still is the possibility of providing a child with a childhood.
		Postman: Well, I started to give an answer to that twenty years ago in a book called Teaching as a Subversive Activity and again thirteen years later in Teaching as a Conserving Activity.
	aurora.icaap.org /archive/postman.html (3218 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism
		Neil Postman, who died Sunday, was one, and now we can say he will always be one.
		Everyone who knew Postman -- and I include perhaps a hundred thousand who only heard him speak -- knew him first through humor, which was the reflection in person of the satire in most of his books, each of which is a pamphlet, an essay between covers.
		Postman's intellectual pose, as well as his poise in public settings, as well as his great gift, which was terribly good humor, came down essentially to this: the trials of a civilized man in a century of barbarism.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/10/10/postman/index.html (402 words)

	Technopoly by Neil Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Technology, Postman admits, is a friend but mostly it is a "dangerous enemy" that "intrudes" into a culture "changing everything", while destroying "the vital sources of our humanity".
		No doubt, Postman is well positioned to comment on technology, how we relate to it, how it changes us and the world we live in.
		At the same time, one wonders whether Postman helps or hinders our understanding of these issues or whether he is simply misusing his position as "expert" to mislead, to fabricate and to indulge in what amounts to fear-mongering.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /~elmurphy/emurphy/technop.html (793 words)

	THE POSTMAN
		The Postman eventually complies with both requests and upon leaving the town, reluctantly takes their letters they wish to have delivered.
		He and the Postman are unaware, however, that Ford has taken it upon himself to swear in other postal workers, and thus reestablish a small, but fully functioning postal service.
		From that point on, the Postman must decide if he's willing to be the civilian's leader and battle Bethlehem and his armies to restore peace across the land.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1997/the_postman.html (3026 words)

	TECHNOS.NET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neil Postman is professor of media ecology and chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University.
		Postman received the George Orwell Award for Clarity in Language from the National Council of Teachers of English in 1986 and the Distinguished Professor Award from NYU in 1988.
		He served as a member of the New York State Commission on Cameras in the Courts in 1988 and 1989 and was the Laurence Lombard Visiting Professor of The Press and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1991.
	www.technos.net /tq_02/4postman.htm (2262 words)

	Neil Postman, 1931-2003
		Neil Postman enjoyed such universal esteem that his loss is being felt by his colleagues and associates everywhere around the world.
		For each of the four weeks that we devote to one thing or another by Postman, I tell the students beforehand that they do not have to agree with anything he says, but that they do need to summarize accurately in their own words what he says.
		As I introduced Dr. Postman to the class, I mentioned that I first came to his writings via Roger Waters' 1993 progressive rock masterpiece, "Amused to Death." I knew that Neil was somewhat reticent about his musically-based fame, and thought that this reference would be a polite, but humorous little jab.
	www.rememberingneilpostman.com (6610 words)

	Neil Postman Online
		Neil Postman: Defender of the Word, by Lance Strate.
		Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism, by Jay Rosen.
		Neil Postman's Criticisms of the Television Medium, by Jonathan Goldstein.
	www.bigbrother.net /~mugwump/Postman (306 words)

	Vol. 3 #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Postman - That is a tough question and one I have been addressing for twenty-five years.
		Postman - Lots of questions have to be raised about the docudramas, not least their use of simulation.
		Postman - Television is the principal instrument of this disaster, in part because it is the medium Americans most dearly love, in part because it has become the command center of our culture.
	car.owu.edu /Vol.%203%20No.%201.htm (2428 words)

	The Postman
		The postman travels from town to town, using the same scam to the same degree of success.
		Two key examples: a little girl "spontaneously" stepping out of the crowd to "touchingly" sing America the Beautiful, and an overdone scene involving a little boy trying to hand deliver a letter to the postman as he rides by (a scene which is recalled once again, to an unintentionally humorous effect, later in the film).
		Still, with all its faults, there are a few interesting "epic-worthy" scenes in The Postman, and the underlying concept (of an unwilling messiah) is interesting and deserved to be explored more fully.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?postman2 (683 words)

	The Postman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Then there was the Italian film that had only played in art houses, "The Postman." Of course, this isn't the first time a foreign film has been nominated for Best Picture, but it's the first time in a long time.
		Plus, there was this buzz on "The Postman" which said that the lead actor had died just hours after finishing the last scene.
		The film, which was titled as "The Postman (Il Postino") on the print that I watched, is a joyous delight.
	www.filethirteen.com /reviews/postman/postman.htm (1649 words)

	The Postman
		Once Costner has escaped from the Holnists and stolen the clothes off the skeleton of a postman, he doesn't immediately "become" "the postman." He's taken the mail as a diversion, and suddenly realizes he can use the mail to talk his way into getting dinner at a very suspicious town.
		When the postman returns to what's left of civilization, he finds one of his followers has turned delivering the mail from a hack to a real service.
		It's a wonderfully-directed sequence, in which the postman realizes he's little more than a myth and it's the kids who are the true believers that things can get better.
	dpsinfo.com /movies/postman.html (621 words)

	Review: The Postman (Il Postino) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Postman, an Italian film from British director Michael Radford (White Mischief, The Elixir), is a charming piece of cinema that takes several comfortable formulas and expands upon them in ingenious and emotionally-satisfying ways.
		Mario (played by the late Italian writer/director/actor Massimo Troisi) is a postman in a fishing village on a small island off the coast of Italy.
		One could argue that all films seek to manipulate; in the case of The Postman, it is done with the utmost skill.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/postman.html (577 words)

	The Postman
		The Postman is set in the year 2013, after a plague has wiped out most of the world's civilization.
		He borrows the dead postman's uniform, and his mail bag, and hatches the scheme of pretending to be a postman to obtain food and drink.
		Along the way, The Postman meets Abby (Olivia Williams) who wants him to impregnate her, and Ford Lincoln Mercury (Larenz Tate) who is inspired by what The Postman represents and wants to be a postman too.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Postman.asp (1303 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: The Postman, the Movie (article)
		Years ago, about the same time that studios were bidding for The Postman, my wife Cheryl and I went to a screening of Field of Dreams.
		The Postman was written as an answer to all those post-apocalyptic books and films that seem to revel in the idea of civilization's fall.
		Costner's postman is a man of decency, a callused idealist who has to learn the hard way about responsibility and what it means to be a hero.
	www.davidbrin.com /postmanmoviearticle.html (1943 words)

	The Postman
		Given that Xmas is a season when people get generous, tolerating any number of personal, social and commercial faux pas, it could be that Kevin Costner directing himself as a legendary post-apocalyptic mailman might seem less unforgivable than it would at some other time of year.
		From its premise (The Postman With No Name reluctantly rises to some occasions, à la Seven Samurai, Road Warrior, Clint Eastwood) to its resolution (The Postman is immortalized, astride his galloping pony, as a big bruiser bronzy statue, à la Rocky), the film goes nowhere, slowly.
		The Postman takes up his non-identity by accident: he finds a skeleton with a bag of undelivered letters and a blue uniform while escaping from his primary opponent, the brutal, self-aggrandizing, not so bright and dreadfully named General Bethlehem (the gifted Will Patton devolved to Dennis Hopper Lite).
	www.citypaper.net /articles/122597/movies.xmas.roundup1.shtml (361 words)

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