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  • Essay / Playing to Death and the Lies My Teacher Told Me

    In the first chapter of Playing to Death, Neil Postman's main premise is how the rise television media and the decline of print media are shaping the quality of information we receive. .Postman describes how the medium controls the message, he uses examples that include the use of clocks, smoke signals, the alphabet and glasses.Postman says that a society that typically uses smoke signals n I'm not likely to talk about philosophy because it would be long and too difficult. Postman also describes how television changes the way people think; a fat person will not look good on television and will be less likely to be elected president. On the other hand, a person's body is not as important as their ideas when expressing them on the radio or in print. On television, visual imagery reigns. The form of television therefore goes against the content of philosophy. The postman shows how the clock has changed. Postman describes how time was a product of nature measured by the sun and the seasons. Now time is measured by a machine in minutes and seconds. The clock transformed us into time watchers, then time savers, and finally time servers. So changing the metaphor of time changed the way we view time itself. In conclusion, in the first chapter, Neil Postman is trying to say that some people think that if they don't see it on TV, it didn't happen and it won't happen. People believe that the things worth paying attention to are on television. Postman also argues that, whether we see it or not in every piece of technology and media, we use an invisible quality. Postman concludes the chapter by saying that our languages ​​are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.Chapter 2In the second chapter of Lies My Teacher Told Me Lowen argues that electronic media have decisively and irreversibly changed the character of our environment. He believes that we are now a culture whose information, ideas, and epistemology are shaped by television, not print. Loewen describes how American discourse is now different from what it once was. Loewwen says the discourse was once logical, serious and rational and today, under television governance, it is shriveled and absurd. Additionally, he writes about definitions of truth and the sources from which these definitions come. Loewen shows how media bias is invisible across an entire culture and gives three examples of truth.