Amusing Ourselves to Death

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Across
  1. 3. The specific technology Postman identifies as the primary force reshaping all public discourse into entertainment.
  2. 5. The drug-like amusement in Brave New World that Postman compares to television's distracting power.
  3. 7. The phrase that exemplifies television's complete lack of context or connection between stories.
  4. 8. The age defined by rational, coherent, and complex public discourse, now lost to television.
  5. 10. Postman's concept for how a civilization's dominant form of communication shapes its very character and values.
Down
  1. 1. The era of television's dominance, where all institutions are turned into mere amusement.
  2. 2. Postman's term for the kind of fragmented, image-based reality created by telegraphy and photography.
  3. 4. The ratio describing our inability to act on the overwhelming flood of disconnected information we receive.
  4. 6. The principle that the form of a medium shapes and controls the scope and quality of the ideas it can convey.
  5. 9. The Huxleyan fear that we would be so distracted by trivia we'd become passive, not a captive culture.