On this episode of media speaks, Nick interviews Dr. Lance Strate, one of the leading media ecologists in the United States and professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. 

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The two discuss the ways in which entertainment and social media have affected political discourse, speaking in relation to a quotation from media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman. 

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In his most famous work, "Amusing ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business," Postman writes: 

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"When in short, a people become an  audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, the a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility."