Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion Audiobook (Free)

An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president

In the tradition of Neil Postman’s masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of 1 shows how American media have formed American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The initial story comes after the advancement of television from your three-network era from the twentieth hundred years, which joined millions of Americans in a shared about Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, as well as the Politics of Illusion monoculture, into today’s zillion-channel, Internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The next story is definitely a social critique of Donald Trump.

Reaching back to the 1940s, when Trump and commercial tv were delivered, Poniewozik illustrates how Donald became ‘a personality that composed itself, a brand mascot that jumped off the cereal container and got into the world, a simulacrum that replaced finished . it displayed.’ Viscerally attuned towards the mass media, Trump shape-shifted right into a boastful tabloid playboy in the 1980s; a self-parodic sitcom fixture in the 1990s; a reality-TV ‘You’re Terminated’ machine in the 2000s; and lastly, the biggest part of his career, a Fox News-obsessed, Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue in the White colored House.