With this eloquent and persuasive reserve, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the way in which where we conduct our public affairs and exactly how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given much less and less expression by means of the published word, they are rapidly getting reshaped to match certain requirements of television. And because television is a visible medium whose images are most pleasurably apprehended if they are fast-moving and dynamic, discourse on tv has small tolerance for discussion, hypothesis, or description. Postman argues that public discourse-the advancing of quarrels in logical order for the public great, once a hallmark of American culture-is being transformed from exposition and description to entertainment.