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Authors: Neil Postman

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Protagoras
Protestantism
proverbs
psychoanalysis
Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick
Pythagoras
radio
railroads
Rather, Dan
reading, changing role of
Reagan, Nancy
Reagan, Ronald
records
religion; Colonial ; 18th- and 19th-century ; on television
resonance
Revere, Paul
rhetoric: Classical Greek; of Lincoln-Douglas debates
Roberts, Oral
Robertson, Cliff
Robertson, Pat
rock music
Roman Catholicism
Rosen, Jay
Russell, Bertrand
Quinn, John
Sagan, Carl
“St. Elsewhere” (TV show)
Sakowicz, Reverend Greg
Satan
“Saturday Night Live” (TV show)
Schorske, Carl
Schuler, Bernard
Schuller, Robert
science
Scott, Walter
“Secrets of the Confessional Box” (TV show)
Selling of the President, The
(McGinnis)
“Sesame Street” (TV show)
“700 Club” (TV show)
Shakespeare, William
Sharswood, George
Sheen, Bishop Fulton
“60 Minutes” (TV show)
slogans
Smith, Adam
Smith, H. Allen
Smith, John,
Description of New England
smoke signals
Socrates
Solomon
Sontag, Susan
Sophists
Spectator
sports
“Star Itek” (TV show)
Steele, Richard,
Guardian
Steinbeck, John
Steiner, George
Stiles, Ezra
Story, Joseph
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Streep, Meryl
Sullivan, Big Tom
surgery, televised
Swaggart, Jimmy
Swain, William
Swift, Jonathan,
A Tale of a Tub
Taft, William Howard
Talbot, William Henry Fox
Tale of a Ttib, A
(Swift)
Tatler
Technics and Civilization
(Mumford)
technology and medium, distinctions between
telegraph
telephone
television; as education; education for control of; as entertainment ; as epistemology; as junk; as myth; as politics; popularity of American programs abroad; as religion; as technology vs. medium
television commercials ; as political discourse
television news shows ; appearance and credibility of newscaster ; discussion following The Day After (ABC movie); as disinformation; music on ; “Now ... this” mode of discourse
Tennent, William
Teresa, Mother
Terry, Reverend
Thoreau, Henry David;
Walden
Thoth (Egyptian god)
Tocqueville, Alexis de;
Democracy in America
“The Tonight Show” (TV show)
Toyota
transportationh-century
Treatise Concerning Religious Affections,
A (Edwards)
“Trivial Pursuit” (game)
Truman, Harry
truth, media as
Tumer. Frederick Jackson
Twain, Mark
typography.
See
printed word
Tyson, Job
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(Stowe)
Us
USA Today
Vietnam War
Virginia Gazette
voting
“The Voyage of the Mimi” (TV series)
Walden
(Thoreau)
“A Walk Through the 20th Century” (TV series)
Wall Street Journal
“Walter Cronkite’s Universe” (TV show)
Washington, George
“Watch Your Mouth” (TV dramatizations)
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Noah,
American Spelling Book
Wells, H. G.
Westheimer, Dr. Ruth
“What’s My Line?” (TV show)
Whitefield, George
Whitman, Walt
Wiesel, Elie
Wirt, William
Witness
(movie)
women, frontier
written word: decline of ; early development of ; Plato on.
See also
printed word
Yale University
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