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#VastWasteland

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AAPB<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1961, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewtonMinow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewtonMinow</span></a>, then FCC Chairman and later a guiding force behind the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, delivered his legendary “Vast Wasteland” speech. His challenge to broadcasters to serve the public good helped shape the landscape of educational and cultural programming we value today.</p><p><a href="https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-kw57jd6j" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">americanarchive.org/catalog/cp</span><span class="invisible">b-aacip-500-kw57jd6j</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicBroadcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicBroadcasting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VastWasteland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VastWasteland</span></a></p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><strong>Newton N. Minow has died.</strong></p><blockquote><p>Newton N. Minow, who as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s famously decried the state of American television as a "vast wasteland," died Saturday at age 97.</p><p>Minow, appointed to head the FCC by President John F. Kennedy, stayed in the post for just two years. Even so, his stinging critique of television programming, delivered during a speech before the National Association of Broadcasters, reverberated long after he had left the job....</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/06/1174552038/fcc-newton-minow-dead" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2023/05/06/1174552038/</span><span class="invisible">fcc-newton-minow-dead</span></a></p><p>A consequence of my rather severe news-restriction diet is that I missed news of Minow's death about a week ago. I've been revisiting his "Vast Wasteland" speech (<a href="https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/newtonminow.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">americanrhetoric.com/speeches/</span><span class="invisible">newtonminow.htm</span></a>) frequently in recent years. It pairs well with Edward R. Murrow's "Lights and Wires in a Box" (<a href="https://www.rtdna.org/murrows-famous-wires-and-lights-in-a-box" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rtdna.org/murrows-famous-wires</span><span class="invisible">-and-lights-in-a-box</span></a>), and Jerry Mander's <em>Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television</em> (<a href="https://archive.org/details/fourargumentsfor00mand_0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/fourargume</span><span class="invisible">ntsfor00mand_0</span></a>).</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Obituary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obituary</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/NewtMinow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewtMinow</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/NewtonNMinow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewtonNMinow</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/TheMinowIsLost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMinowIsLost</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/VastWasteland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VastWasteland</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Television" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Television</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ItsMinowNotMinnowDamnit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ItsMinowNotMinnowDamnit</span></a></p><p><strong>Edit:</strong> s/minnow/minow/</p>
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