{"id":12982,"date":"2020-11-05T22:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2020-11-05T22:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:03:37","slug":"neil-postman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=12982","title":{"rendered":"Neil Postman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/kultur\/2020-11\/demokratie-usa-donald-trump-stephen-colbert-politisierung-unterhaltung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Johannes V\u00f6lz, Die Zeit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8222;Wir am\u00fcsieren uns zu Tode&#8220;, hat der amerikanische Medien\u00adwissen\u00adschaftler Neil Postman schon 1985 gewarnt. Angesichts der\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mittlerweile \u00fcber 230.000 Corona-Toten in den USA<\/a>\u00a0ist dieser Buchtitel noch nicht einmal \u00fcbertrieben.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For years I&#8217;ve remarked to people that Boorstin&#8217;s <i>The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America<\/i>, Postman&#8217;s <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business<\/em>, and Gabler&#8217;s <em>Life: the Movie &#8211; How Entertainment Conquered Reality<\/em> are quite helpful in understanding 21<sup class=\"\">st<\/sup> Century American politics and society. I am frequently finding that Die Zeit, Frankfurter Allgemeine, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">France 24<\/span> accurately depict the US, while American media seems lost in psychosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes V\u00f6lz, Die Zeit: &#8222;Wir am\u00fcsieren uns zu Tode&#8220;, hat der amerikanische Medien\u00adwissen\u00adschaftler Neil Postman schon 1985 gewarnt. Angesichts der\u00a0mittlerweile \u00fcber 230.000 Corona-Toten in den USA\u00a0ist dieser Buchtitel noch nicht einmal \u00fcbertrieben. For years I&#8217;ve remarked to people that Boorstin&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=12982\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}