Week Nine: Entertainment as the Meta-ideology of Television

This week I am asking you to read a section from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. In this section he discusses how politics in the television age is governed by the discourse of show business because entertainment is what he calls the "meta-ideology" of television. Please read the section of the essay entitled "Reach Out and Elect Someone" which starts on page 91 of the document and goes to page 103. I will make a separate version of just the selected pages and post it on the course resource page.

This week's homework assignment was to watch a political advertisement and to make two readings of the advertisement, one a reading from a dominant framework and a second reading from an oppositional framework. Post these readings on your blog.