{"id":388,"date":"2016-06-17T19:07:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=388"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T02:07:40","slug":"media-as-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Media as Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For, like the printing press, television is nothing less than a philosophy of rhetoric. To talk seriously about television, one must therefore talk of epistemology. All other commentary is in itself trivial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2014Neil Postman, <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death<\/em>, (New York: Penguin, 1985), 17.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finding Postman&#8217;s thoughts on television quite relevant to the flood of new media we&#8217;re soaking in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For, like the printing press, television is nothing less than a philosophy of rhetoric. To talk seriously about television, one must therefore talk of epistemology. All other commentary is in itself trivial. \u2014Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, (New York: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=388\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}