Relevant passage from the article: In his seminal 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman observed that television makes entertainment “the natural

Relevant passage from the article: In his seminal 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman observed that television makes entertainment “the natural format for the representation of all experience.” Even though Postman was writing before reality TV and social networks, his breakdown of television’s rhetorical rules—that “simple messages are preferable to… complex ones,” that “drama is to be preferred over exposition”—are more relevant than ever.