Well now that I've found out how to actually post on the blog, this is me discussing my views on Amusing Ourselves to Death (because we already talked about #20 in class).
Although I think Postman discussed an interesting topic, I found reading his book a little uninteresting. He tended to go on and on about something that could just have easily been summarized in a few sentences.  Most chapters were just excessively repetitive, and using not-so present day examples didn't help anything along. In fact, it really just made readers less able to relate to the book.
One of the only points of his I actually found interesting, however, was his chapter discussing the use of "Now...This" in news broadcasting. Before school every morning, I watch the news while eating breakfast (because my parents turn it on, not because i prefer it over morning cartoons), and I found this point about short topics completely true. The news does tend to make short and unemotional stories, and although they may not actually say "Now...This," it is true what he says.
And that, my friends, is what I though of Neil Postman's rant on television killing the minds of young people.