Greg Beato: Amusing Ourselves to Depth

GREG BEATO Amusing Ourselves to Depth 1. Tim Keck started The onion plant because he wanted to create a compelling way to deliver advertising to his fellow students. Part of the number 1 issues front page was devoted to a story about a demon running amok at a local lake the rest was reserved for beer and pizza coupons. (389) This shows that the newspapers direction towards fake news and advertisement. 2.The Onion is one successful newspaper because it prints 710,000 copies of each weekly edition, 6,000 more(prenominal) than the Denver post have 3000 local advertisers attract 2 million online readers a week and pompousness a 60% increase in their print circulation. (389-390) 3. Beato choose the title Amusing Ourselves to Depth because it warns the ordain that would befall us if public discourse were allowed to become substantially more entertaining (390), which is the opposite to what The Onion is doing. This suggests Beato is against this idea, and supports The Onion, that ente rtainment in news is good. 4.Beato mentions Americas most informed citizens simply prefer japery over the stentorian drivel the network anchormannequins dispense, (390) to argue against Neil Postmans notion. 5. The Onion focused on expressing a worldview of any kind and delights in crapping on pieties and regularly publishes stories guaranteed to upset someone by macrocosm completely honest. 6. Beato is not suggesting that fake news is better than real news but implying that by existence honest, expressing a worldview of any kind and not afraid of offending people with a pinch of entertainment is better way to convey news.