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Article: Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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by Todd Gitlin. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. 260 PP. Hardcover: S25.00 and Paperback: $13.00.
Veteran social critic Todd Gitlin tackles the media problem and the result is an interesting and useful contribution to the developing critique. Does he pose any solutions? No. But the breathless passion with which he writes informs a number of novel insights. This is an important addition to the media Luddite literature.
That movement gained momentum more than twenty-five years ago with the clarion classics by Marie Winn (The Plug-In Drug) and Jerry Mander (Four Arguments for the Elimination of Televison). Over the years Neil Postman has weighed in ...