Neil Postman, a prolific and influential social critic and educator best known for his warning that an era of mass communications is stunting the minds of children as well as adults died Sunday at a ...

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Neil Postman, who died Sunday (Oct. 5, 2003) of cancer in Queens, was a social critic and media scholar who would have appreciated and understood the irony of Arnold Schwarzenegger's election. The ...