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From: brian@cat50.CS.WISC.EDU (Brian Miller)
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Subject: Re: Effects of poor writing? (Long)
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Date: 5 May 89 16:25:38 GMT
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In article <2031@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>     Isn't literacy wonderful?  How neat to be able to pluck an event from a
>single book, and have a reasonable chance of evoking the same memory in a 
>large group of literate, culturally similar people...

On that note, does anyone remember a book about media and society by
(Neil?) Postman?  I suspect I "have a reasonable chance..." :-).
I <skimmed> it for a paper freshman year, and all I can remember
is that it was chalk full of pertinent observations on everything
we've been chewing on.  If anyone _has_ read this book and can
recall some of Postman's examples/arguments/observations, please post.
	Would be cool...				     
					      Thanx.