Reflective essay on Amused to Death by PostmanIn Amused to Death, Postman provides a critical analysis of the media environment in 1985. He explores the role and The impact of the media in addressing different sectors of society, including religion, politics, information and education. Although this book was written before 1985, its relevance is much more evident today than ever; We live in a nation in which entertainment is the center and focus of every sector of American society and in which our notation of truth or knowledge has been significantly redefined. That is, we are “about to have fun to death” (4) in this contemporary media environment of 2014 by being constantly exposed to the Internet (i.e. Twitter, email, Blackboard, YouTube); while our notation for whether something is accurate revolves around the following lines: "Let's Google it." In Postman's novel, we are given the general thesis with the following sentence: "we are a people about to have fun to death" (4). It is through this first sentence that Postman manages to convey his critical analysis of the media environment in 1985. His critical analysis revolves around television; he explains how this technology has changed the way Americans think and live their daily lives. He goes on to explain how television reshaped epistemology and led Americans to expect a certain form of "entertainment" from every sector of society. In other words, the way we knew something as truth, or acquired knowledge, was changed because of television, while simultaneously leading Americans to expect that politics, religion , education and information (to name a few) are “entertaining”. "The postman bases in middle of paper......are unusually short, their design relies heavily on pictures, charts and other graphics, some of them printed in different colors" (111 ). explains how, before television, America was print-based, which called for consistency. Yet, with the shift from a typographical American society to a television-based society, television can be said to “promote inconsistency and triviality” (80). It was the introduction of television that suffered from our public discourse; the way we talk and think about things has changed (even though our message may be the same as before television). In short, Postman asserts how our notion of “being informed” (107) has been reshaped by television. Television creates disinformation, or misleading information, because it acts as the illusion of in-depth knowledge of a subject and because the news is presented as a form of entertainment..