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BOOKS

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (Methuen, 1987) £7.99.
How TV is transforming our culture into one vast arena for show-business.

Get a Life by David Burke and Jean Lotus (Bloomsbury, 1998) £12.99.
Acerbic manifesto of the anti-TV organisation White Dot (see also websites, below).

The More You Watch, The Less You Know by Danny Schechter (Seven Stories Press, 1997) £15.99.
Weaving autobiographical experiences with media analysis, a former ABC and CNN producer names names and points his finger at key players in the US megamedia corporations that rule the airwaves.

Tele-ology: Studies in Television by John Hartley (Routledge, 1992) £10.99
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking discussion of television broadcasting in Britain, Australia and the United States.


WEBSITES

Adbusters
www.adbusters.org/home
The website of the award-winning anti-consumerism magazine Adbusters.

American Academy of Pediatrics National Media Education Campaign
www.aap.org/advocacy/mediamatters.htm
Reports about the effects of television on children.

White Dot
www.whitedot.org
The UK and US anti-TV organisation's site contains a wide range of subversive strategies.


CREDITS

Writer: Malcolm Burgess
Editor: Dee Searle
Assistant editor: Sarah Woodley
Design: édition

Produced to accompany Can You Live Without?, a Fulcrum production for Channel 4, first shown May-June 2000.

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