Today we are in the midst of a second, digital revolution that is laying the groundwork for an international and interactive information infrastructure in which once separate media are already converging. A classic example of this convergence is the medium of television. Television blends mostly sound and print to produce a new medium that may influence public discourse. Neil Postman believes that the nature of knowledge created by television does not allow for intelligent reasoned discourse. Postman aligns himself between several factions of sociologists, cog