I learned on Twitter today that that guy's name was the origin of the Gilligan's Island vessel.
/Doug [email protected] On Sat, May 6, 2023, 4:22 p.m. Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > The JFK era FCC chief will remain most noted for his 1961 speech where he > called television a "vast wasteland," although the accomplishments he > preferred to be noted for included the laws requiring all US television > sets to include UHF channels and the laws that set up satellite > communication, which, among other things, turned cable TV from a way to get > distant TV signals to a transmission system that could compete with > over-the-air television--after the FCC, he was a major figure in the > establishment of public broadcasting in the US, and was still rightly > critical of television's failings, especially in how it covers the news: > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/business/media/newton-n-minow-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=2Q4ncc02uSfJa_-4UdItlqkjXhsjqu9d0Z9-fYv1FWw2ddfTWUJ93JZkLKn3AxNmaN0EgxsZhhdVEDJLA23reF62EH592E8KR02T5-R2ou8QkT2n8Y-jgSuWmVZdA9-mNdwrEsBcfPR6kn7i6Rg-76u-Q-b9lR_Nhj3GPWRppHOffdjHCw33A1H4oavFj7QEDshPIrwTQnkE13rAQbext67Oty33UkgEFZif2t3L9TIpzBUnezllyh3VzQx8BX9lKgxIWgWz3XJiMuF1CbA8ADDknAWRKm4LUE-O0inYPB8sPoM63Zsf85TZzj72xWRCovTEpWk6RmU3bvDnYfP-SBbesY0&smid=url-share > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/529c5fd0-973c-40cf-91be-06dc8f5befc9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/529c5fd0-973c-40cf-91be-06dc8f5befc9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BqnkgroqhErh-Q4duJtiUPPBof3WhYt_crMG_%3DqUkbryw%40mail.gmail.com.
