Neil Postman Obit
October 10, 2003
Media scholar and social critic Neil Postman died this week in New York. In his many articles, books and lectures, Postman was passionate about the deleterious impact of television on children, and on society as a whole. In an age of increasing media saturation, he urged people to be skeptical of the rush toward new communications technologies. OTM’s Paul Ingles presents some of the more enduring questions raised in Postman’s work.
