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“In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.” ~ Neil Postman, b. 8 March 1931

March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003: Neil Postman: "There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore... we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything."

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. — Neil Postman

Neil Postman’s 1985 work, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death,' so presciently captured the dangers of the post-truth era that it still feels eerily modern.

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Neil Postman quote: Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

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