After analysing Postman’s scrutiny of television news shows, I have established a foundation on which to unravel the illusions of television, and specifically how television at once made 9/11 a form of entertainment, but institutionalized a singular selective moralistic narrative and response which renders all other views – including criticism – immoral or disrespectful. Drawing on texts by Theodor Adorno and Neil Postman I examine how television has profoundly altered social and mental life. My interest then, is what effect does such an inherent trait have on the televisual dissemination of the Septemterrorist attacks? This dissertation calls into question the socio-psychological impact of television, and thus how we receive and subsequently respond to an event like 9/11. As such everything shown on television is imbued with this ideology. Arguing that the innate ideology of television, its primary objective, is entertainment. Neil Postman believed Huxley was right, and argued that television ushered in a detrimental reconfiguration of social and mental life. Aldous Huxley prophesied it would not be what we fear that ruined us, but what we loved.
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