Free Audio Books   Audio Books Newsletter

 

How to Watch TV News

Written By : Neil Postman and Steve Powers

Narrated By : Jeff Riggenbach

Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 4 hours 30 minutes

Categories : TV
Non Fiction

Price : $39.95 $12.95

Buy Now...

"Jeff Riggenbach's reading is ideal: very clear, comfortably paced and objective in tone.
This reviewer urges this book on every adult in America."AudioFile

America is suffering from an information glut. Most Americans are no longer clear about what news is
worth remembering or how any of it connects to anything else. Thus, Americans are rapidly becoming
the least knowledgeable people in the industrial world.

In How to Watch TV News, author and academic Neil Postman and television journalist Steve
Powers show how you can become a discerning viewer. They show the difference between entertainment
fodder and genuine news, pointing to the symbiotic relationship between TV news and advertising. They
explain why TV news has become a "cash cow," and stress that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for
his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

Other titles you may be interested in

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries Written By : Neil deGrasse Tyson Narrated By : Dion Graham Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 12 hours Categories : Non Fiction Price : $23.95 This is a vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation’s best-known astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, renowned for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor. Here he cove More info...

Himalaya Written By : Michael Palin Narrated By : Michael Palin Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Runtime : 6 hours Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction Price : $26.99 Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya in his sixth international expedition. More info...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Written By : Neil Postman Narrated By : Jeff Riggenbach Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc Runtime : 5 hours Categories : TV Non Fiction Price : $39.95 $14.95 In this eloquently persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs and how “entertainment values” have corrupted even the way we think. Postman believes that public discourse, the advancing of arguments... More info...

Pole to Pole Written By : Michael Palin Narrated By : Michael Palin Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd Runtime : 5 hours 40 minutes Categories : Adventurers & Explorers Non Fiction Price : $26.99 Three years after going Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin was off again. Travelling from one end of the globe to the other, Palin and his team endured extremes of heat and cold as they... More info...