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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