Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” should be updated for the Internet age
I recently read Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. A few parts caught my attention: As Father John Culkin of Fordham University likes to say, a … Read More
There’s what it does, and there’s what people need. Are you what people need?
A final note for students embarking on a career in the media arts. Create more than you consume, and separate what people need versus what something does.
“My god it was awful—my husband and I just talked.”
We don’t need to study the Internet because the last good study was done in 1975 and tells us everything we need to know.
Local news and mastery of the press
Local news is like going to a restaurant where it’s sometimes good, sometimes terrible. Eventually, you stop going altogether.