FCC chairman Newton Minow got up before the NAB convention and basically dumped on the assembled commercial broadcasters. His speech made "vast wasteland" a synonym for television's worst evils and remains used to this day by TV's detractors. The ex-Chief has a contrarian article in which he points out that Minow for one reason or another was unable to deliver on the threats he made to broadcasters in his speech regarding their licenses and how he unwittingly can be blamed for the sorry state of local TV news:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/07/2852642/why-the-vast-wasteland-speech.html -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
