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...common currency of pop culture and public discourse will be the quick-cut, in-your-face style of TV sitcoms and music videos. "The visual image will be familiar, more communicative to people. But at the same time, there will be a general humiliation of language," says Neil Postman, chairman of New York University's communications department. Our connection with the real world may grow ever more tenuous as images increasingly supplant words and symbolic gestures overwhelm rational argument. The portent is ominous: How can an electorate conditioned by MTV ever have the patience to solve the budget deficit...
Another Nation editorial board member, Neil Postman, wrote that he intends to vote for Clinton, "as much in shame as in sorrow...
...effects on the American young, he might have hit the medium on 30 or 40 more serious matters before coming to Murphy Brown's marital status. By age 20, an American child will have watched 700,000 TV commercials. According to New York University professor and media critic Neil Postman, "There are several messages in these ads: that all problems are solvable, that the solutions are quickly available through use of some chemical, food, drug or machine." Television creates the culture of immediate gratification, not primarily through its comedy shows but through its advertising. Says Postman: "If anyone wants...
Monday, Feb. 17: Postman Always RingsTwice at 3:30 and 7:40 p.m. DoubleIndemnity...
That dictum inspired him to save up the money for his first bike at the age of six. Today it underpins the "toughlove" policies he is pursuing as Governor of Wisconsin. "We're glad to say he's a typical Wisconsinite," says Tilmar Roalkvam, 72, a retired Elroy postman who has known Thompson from childhood. "It's them work ethic. Being a good person...