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An Interview with Neil Postman

MR: In Amusing Ourselves to Death, you have a chapter on the influence of entertainment on religion. Do you think that modernity comes to us in stealth-like fashion, and sometimes Christians and other groups can be naive in viewing style as neutral?Postman: I certainly think that it is a mistake to believe that style is […]

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Friday, 31 August, 2007 by Neil Postman
An Interview with Neil Postman

MR: In Amusing Ourselves to Death, you have a chapter on the influence of entertainment on religion. Do you think that modernity comes to us in stealthlike fashion, and sometimes Christians and other groups can be naive in viewing style as neutral? NP: I certainly think that it is a mistake to believe that style […]

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Tuesday, 07 August, 2007 by Neil Postman

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An Interview with Neil Postman

An Interview with Neil Postman