Is entertainment everything? News, politics, sports, commerce, the arts, religion, education: hardly a realm of human existence is unaffected by the desire to grab and hold an audience. Good, bad, or inevitable? A lively panel discussion with Janet Clayton, editor of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times; Neal Gabler, author of Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality; Neil Postman, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business; and Frank Rich, op-ed columnist and former chief drama critic for the New York Times.


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