Appetite for Distraction: 1. Postman’s Prophecy?
Matthew Syed asks what it means to be distracted in a media world vying for our attention. In this first episode, he seeks answers in the work of the media theorist and educator Neil Postman. Forty years ago Postman wrote 'Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business'. Postman feared that…
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