The Age of Show Business

In this article, Neil Postman describes how everything on television is only given to us as a form of entertainment. Even on such shows where the viewer believes to be as educational, the information is still edited in a form to make it engaging and serve the purpose to entertain even while it teaches us. Television has become the guide that the viewer turns to to gain important information. No longer is it needed to buy a newspaper to learn of the daily news, one simply turns on the television and allows the information to begin to feed. This is due to the convenience of having a television in ones house. Since television is used frequently to gain information in an entertaining way, it enables the viewer to tune out and just not think.