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Also, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness.

Postman references Huxley/Orwell in the introduction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

Postman's book is fantastic. I read the book > 10 years ago and still talk about it. One of his points that stuck with me was that if television were actually entertaining we would never be able to leave it.

Also, have a look at some of his more famous quotes: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/41963.Neil_Postman

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