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How The Telegraph Became A Radicle Change In American Society

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In chapter 5: The Peek-a-Boo World, Mr. Postman begins the chapter with a conversation of how the creation of the telegraph marked a radicle change in American society. He contends that: “The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography's definition of discourse, introducing on a large-scale irrelevance, impotence, and incoherence” (Postman, p.49). What Postman is arguing here that the Telegraph allowed context-free information to be tolerated by masses and turned into a commodity for one’s entertainment. To make matters worse, because the telegraph allowed the spreading of information to flow to other parts of the country and the world, it allowed (according to Postman) the spreading of regionally unimportant information into public
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