An Interview With John Eldredge

Edit Huffington Post 14 Apr 2016
A Story Worth Living is the story of dreams sought after and achieved as well as all the battles in the journey. Six men embarking on a journey across Colorado's Rockies on adventure motorcycles and find much more than adventure ... Eldredge ... Eldredge ... Eldredge ... As the late sociologist Neil Postman said, the story our age has been given is the story of accident ... And as Postman observed, for most people, those are not satisfactory answers ... Yes....

How a Tabloid Story About Ted Cruz Reveals Just How Awful Mainstream Media Has Become

Edit Alternet 06 Apr 2016
The National Enquirer story should have been quarantined by the mainstream media. Instead, everyone ran with it. How did we get here? ... Instead, everyone reported on it ... Question ... We all know we live in what the cultural analyst Neil Postman called “The Age of Show Business” in which there is actually more show business news and gossip each night on television – see “Access Hollywood,” “Extra,” “ET,” and E!—than so-called hard news ... Watch....

Gabler: Why The Media Is All Over The National Enquirer’s Cruz Affair Hot Air

Edit TPM 04 Apr 2016
Hot Air” — that was The Huffington Post homepage headline last Sunday on the National Enquirer’s exclusive that GOP presidential aspirant Ted Cruz allegedly had five affairs ... We all know we live in what the cultural analyst Neil Postman called “The Age of Show Business” in which there is actually more show business news and gossip each night on television – see “Access Hollywood,” “Extra,” “ET,” and E! — than so-called hard news ... ....

Attention Must Be Paid (Except to Climate Change)

Edit Huffington Post 02 Apr 2016
A bombshell dropped the other day. But if nobody heard it explode, did that make it a dud?. This is from a news story on Thursday. "We are not saying this is definitely going to happen. But there's a danger, and it should receive a lot more attention.". What danger? Sez who? I'll get back to that. But check out the last word in that quote first ... Attention is finite ... I've always been a fan of Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death ... ....

CNN and the Networks Now Rely on Trump to Stay Profitable

Edit Alternet 30 Mar 2016
Neal Gabler on CNN. "I can’t recall a situation in which a network was so dependent on a candidate ... Let’s begin with the MSM ... that print journalism, as the late media analyst Neil Postman used to say, is more intellectually engaging than visual journalism; that TV has more at stake financially than print media and is thus more cautious in attacking its golden goose; and that print media feel a moral responsibility that TV doesn’t....

Establishment, Beware the Ides of March

Edit Huffington Post 09 Mar 2016
Bernie Sanders' victory in the Michigan primary is incredibly important for a number of reasons. Foremost, this is the first real upset of this election season. Every single, and I mean every single opinion poll prior to the Michigan Primary showed Hillary Clinton in ascendancy. Most polls showed her ahead by 20 to 27 points ... Upsets in politics are a big deal ... Undecided voters are swayed ... The brilliant Neil Postman wrote this in 1985 ... ....

Donald Trump Disrupting The Religious Right's Christian-America Dreams?

Edit Huffington Post 25 Feb 2016
Lane believes America was founded by and for Christians and has a national mission to advance the Christian faith ... Trump won by an even bigger margin in the Nevada caucuses ... Wade ... Trump can win only in the sort of celebrity-focused mobocracy that Neil Postman warned us about years ago, in which sound moral judgments are displaced by a narcissistic pursuit of power combined with promises of “winning” for the masses ... ....

What a scary photo of Mark Zuckerberg says about our dystopian tech future

Edit The Times of India 23 Feb 2016
In the photo, Mark Zuckerberg is half-smiling, dazed, as if he can't quite fathom the spectacle he has achieved ... Much later, people on the network that Zuckerberg invented will start passing this photo around ... "In the age of advanced technology," wrote the media theorist Neil Postman, "spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face." ....

An Open Letter to the Republican Leadership From One of Your Own

Edit Huffington Post 22 Feb 2016
Dear Republicans,. I used to be one of you. When I was a religious right activist in the 1970s and 1980s. I fondly remember staying with my friends Jack and Joanne Kemp in their home in Washington DC ... That series was the work of Dr. C ... He wasn't ... First, Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing�Ourselves to Death has been vindicated ... These are fact-free functional illiterates, creatures of TV news and celebrity culture, Postman's walking dead ... �....

Roger Simon: Jeb Bush needs savagery, not heart

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 16 Feb 2016
Follow @politicoroger. As traveling acts go, the Bush family does not rise to the level of the Marx Brothers or even the Osmond family ... So far, things look bleak ... OPINION. Follow @politicoroger.   ... George W ... “We are not permitted to know who is best at being President,” Neil Postman, a media theorist, wrote way back in 1985, “but whose image is best in touching and soothing the deep reaches of our discontent.”....

America, Stop Watching the Sideshow and Feel the Bern

Edit Huffington Post 15 Feb 2016
In 1985 American Author and cultural critic Neil Postman published a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death ... In the book Postman explored the influence of technology, particularly television, on American culture ... Three decades after Amusing Ourselves to Death was published it seems, ironically, that Neil Postman himself made the most important prophecies about the postmodern world....

Conservatives against Trump

Edit National Review 22 Jan 2016
GLENN BECK. As the election of 2008 approached, America was in crisis. And as we would soon learn, that crisis would not go to waste ... There was a silver lining, however ... Barack Obama supported all three ... Trump can win only in the sort of celebrity-focused mobocracy that Neil Postman warned us about years ago, in which sound moral judgments are displaced by a narcissistic pursuit of power combined with promises of “winning” for the masses....
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