News Summary

• David Frum: I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985
• According to Postman, I was busy looking for signs of the grim future presaged by Orwell in 1984, Frum writes
• He says Postman means that our very thought processes are organized according to the dominant medium of our time—and television is ruining them