? Entertainment is a kind of pleasure and relaxation brought to the receiver by expressing the feelings or skills of oneself and others. From the title of "Entertainment to Death", we can appreciate the general direction of this book.

? Entertainment to Death is a book published by neil Pozmann in the 1980s, which is about the process that television gradually replaces written language. This book analyzes the transformation of American society from the rule of printing to the rule of television, and Pozmann analyzes the influence of the new media dominated by television on people's thinking, cognition and even the whole social and cultural development trend. This work has also become one of Pozmann's trilogy of media criticism.

? There are eleven chapters in the text of the book, and each chapter has a unique chapter name, which clearly puts forward Pozmann's point of view. The names of some chapters are very interesting. The first chapter is "media is metaphor". Pozmann used the clock and time to lead people to define their own society, life and all kinds of media. Media is the way people know the world. Chapter 2 "Media is epistemology". In this chapter, Pozmann tells that the change of things' form will have a great influence on the result. This chapter is related to the first chapter. The third chapter is "America under the rule of printing presses", in which it is said that the change of media mode has had an impact on the change of American class. Then the fourth chapter is "Thinking under the rule of printing", which explains the functions of printed matter and TV audio-visual images, and puts forward two corresponding eras: "Interpretation Era" and "Entertainment Era". The fifth chapter "The World of Peekaboo", the title of this chapter is my favorite, and the title uses the word Peekaboo, which is both direct and obscure. This chapter impacts the concept of "the era of interpretation", pointing out that traffic and communication can be separated, and photos have been given the status of language, but they have lost the guiding value for practical actions. This information is just for entertainment, which is in line with the title, which is the author's core point of view. Pozmann is here.

? Starting from the sixth chapter, it is the second part of the text. In my opinion, the second film is like Pozmann awakening people from this phenomenon of entertainment to death. The sixth chapter "Entertainment Times" expounds the contribution of television to the entertainment times; Chapter 7, "Good … Now", I think this is a turning point in Pozmann's book. It connects two unrelated topics, and the title of the chapter is only three words, which is very thought-provoking; Chapter 8 "Towards Bethlehem" mentioned that television, as a carrier, could not undertake the important task of conveying the most important part of religion or education. The transformation between TV and printing is to turn many things into another thing, which is a criticism of TV entertainment. Chapter 9 "Reach out and vote" and Chapter 10 "Education is an entertainment activity" talk about American politics and education, pointing out that due to the nature of television, people's participation in politics will not be coherent and full of wisdom, and education will not necessarily get good results. These two chapters are the "most important parts" mentioned in Chapter 9. In the last chapter, Huxley's Warning, Pozmann mentioned that it is impossible for people to give up TV, but he also proposed the only feasible way, which is to make people deeply and permanently aware of the structure and effect of information, eliminate the mystery of the media, and let people gain some control over TV, computers or other media.

? In my opinion, the era of entertainment is not over yet. With the development of modern network technology, people's pursuit of entertainment can be said to be intensified, and some false things can also become the topic of people's leisure time, which is also a kind of sorrow for the development of new media. The gradual enhancement of the entertainment attribute in the development of new media has caused many bad social influences. I think only by properly controlling and guiding the entertainment attributes can the media play a better role.