Amusing Ourselves to Death

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by Neil Postman


  legal system; 18- and 19th-century ; televised

  leisure, changing role of

  librariesh-century

  Life

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln-Douglas debates

  Lindsay, John

  Lippmann, Walter

  literacy rates: Colonial; 19th-century

  “The Little House on the Prairie” (TV show)

  Locke, John; Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Look

  Lowell, James Russell

  Luther, Martin

  Lyceum Movement

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McGinnis, Joe, The Selling of the President

  McGovem, George

  McGuffy Reader

  McLuhan, Marshall

  McNamara, Robert

  MacNeil, Robert

  “MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour” (TV show)

  Madison, James

  Magnetic Telegraph Company

  Mander, Jerry, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

  Markham, Edwin

  Marshall,. John

  Marx, Karl; The German Ideology

  Mayflower

  media, as epistemology

  media-metaphors

  medical practices, televised

  medium and technology, distinctions between

  “Meet the Press” (TV show)

  Melville, Herman

  metaphors, media

  Methodists

  microscope

  Middle Ages

  Mill, James

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, Perry.

  Miller, Reverend Samuel

  Miller, William

  Milosz, Czeslaw

  Milton, John, Areopagitica

  “Mission: Impossible” (TV show)

  mnemonics

  Moral Majority

  Moran, Terence

  Morse, Samuel

  Moyers, Bill

  Mumford, Lewis; Technics and Civilization

  music: rock; television

  Nader, Ralph

  National Religious Broadcasters Association

  NBC network

  Nevins, Allan

  New-England Courant

  “The New Media Bible” (movies)

  newspapers: advertising in ; history of ; modeled on television See also specific names of newspapers

  New York Apprentices’ Library

  New York City

  New York Daily Mirror

  New Yorker, The

  New York Gazette

  New York Herald

  New York Sun

  New York Times, The

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  19th century; advertising; education; legal system; Lincoln-Douglas debates; photography ; religion; telegraph; transportation; typography

  Nixon, Richard

  “Nova” (TV series)

  “Now ... this” mode of discourse

  O’Connor, Cardinal John J.

  Official Video Journal

  O’Neill, Tip

  Ong, Walter

  “The Open Mind” (TV show)

  oral traditions

  Orwell, George ; “The Politics of the English Language”

  Ovid, Ars Amatoria

  Paine, Thomas; The Age of Reason; Common Sense

  pamphlets, colonial

  Paul IV, Pope

  Pennsylvania Amish, filming of

  penny newspaper

  People

  Philadelphia

  philosophy

  Phoenix

  photography

  pictographic writing

  Plato; on written word

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  politics; Lincoln-Douglas debates ; 1984 presidential debates ; Orwell on

  politics, television; as advertising; and physical appearance of politician

  “The Politics of the English Language” (Orwell)

  polls

  Prope, Alexander, Homer

  Presbyterians

  presidential debates, 1984,

  printed word: advertising, history of ; in Colonial times ; decline of ; effects of telegraphy and photography on ; invention of; 19th-century

  printing press;

  invention of

  Protagoras

  Protestantism

  proverbs

  psychoanalysis

  Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick

  Pythagoras

  radio

  railroads

  Rather, Dan

  reading, changing role of

  Reagan, Nancy

  Reagan, Ronald

  records

  religion; Colonial ; 18th- and 19th-century ; on television

  resonance

  Revere, Paul

  rhetoric: Classical Greek; of Lincoln-Douglas debates

  Roberts, Oral

  Robertson, Cliff

  Robertson, Pat

  rock music

  Roman Catholicism

  Rosen, Jay

  Russell, Bertrand

  Quinn, John

  Sagan, Carl

  “St. Elsewhere” (TV show)

  Sakowicz, Reverend Greg

  Satan

  “Saturday Night Live” (TV show)

  Schorske, Carl

  Schuler, Bernard

  Schuller, Robert

  science

  Scott, Walter

  “Secrets of the Confessional Box” (TV show)

  Selling of the President, The (McGinnis)

  “Sesame Street” (TV show)

  “700 Club” (TV show)

  Shakespeare, William

  Sharswood, George

  Sheen, Bishop Fulton

  “60 Minutes” (TV show)

  slogans

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, H. Allen

  Smith, John, Description of New England

  smoke signals

  Socrates

  Solomon

  Sontag, Susan

  Sophists

  Spectator

  sports

  “Star Itek” (TV show)

  Steele, Richard, Guardian

  Steinbeck, John

  Steiner, George

  Stiles, Ezra

  Story, Joseph

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  Streep, Meryl

  Sullivan, Big Tom

  surgery, televised

  Swaggart, Jimmy

  Swain, William

  Swift, Jonathan, A Tale of a Tub

  Taft, William Howard

  Talbot, William Henry Fox

  Tale of a Ttib, A (Swift)

  Tatler

  Technics and Civilization (Mumford)

  technology and medium, distinctions between

  telegraph

  telephone

  television; as education; education for control of; as entertainment ; as epistemology; as junk; as myth; as politics; popularity of American programs abroad; as religion; as technology vs. medium

  television commercials ; as political discourse

  television news shows ; appearance and credibility of newscaster ; discussion following The Day After (ABC movie); as disinformation; music on ; “Now ... this” mode of discourse

  Tennent, William

  Teresa, Mother

  Terry, Reverend

  Thoreau, Henry David; Walden

  Thoth (Egyptian god)

  Tocqueville, Alexis de;

  Democracy in America

  “The Tonight Show” (TV show)

  Toyota

  transportationh-century

  Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, A (Edwards)

  “Trivial Pursuit” (game)

  Truman, Harry

  truth, media as

  Tumer. Frederick Jackson

  Twain, Mark

  typography. See printed word

  Tyson, Job

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

  Us

&n
bsp; USA Today

  Vietnam War

  Virginia Gazette

  voting

  “The Voyage of the Mimi” (TV series)

  Walden (Thoreau)

  “A Walk Through the 20th Century” (TV series)

  Wall Street Journal

  “Walter Cronkite’s Universe” (TV show)

  Washington, George

  “Watch Your Mouth” (TV dramatizations)

  Webster, Daniel

  Webster, Noah, American Spelling Book

  Wells, H. G.

  Westheimer, Dr. Ruth

  “What’s My Line?” (TV show)

  Whitefield, George

  Whitman, Walt

  Wiesel, Elie

  Wirt, William

  Witness (movie)

  women, frontier

  written word: decline of ; early development of ; Plato on. See also printed word

  Yale University

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