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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.
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Neil Postman
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.
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