While the penny press was expanding it's boundaries in Canada the telegraph and telephone was starting to capture a hold of the American population. ... By this time, half of America had radios and most people accepted and applauded the idea of national broadcasting. ... America is a society where everyone owns at least one television set, and is the most used appliance in households where watching it daily has become routine. ... In Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, he aims to demonstrate the overpowering influence of entertainment and materialism on our daily live...

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