Former PM says television dumbs down MPs and Parliament: idiot box has turned Canada’s Parliamentary system into a presidential-type of government: Turner

Television has long been blamed for irrevocably transforming our culture, not for the better in many cases. As Neil Postman argued in his famous book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, it has turned all matters of public affairs - be it politics, religion, news, education, or business - into a form of ...

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