Television: "A vast wasteland" (1961)
Former FCC chair Newton Minnow's famous critique.
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Television "A Vast Wasteland" (1961)
In 1961 the FCC Chairman, Newton Minnow, gave a scathing speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention calling television "a vast wasteland."…Vimeo
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The commercial / advertising-based broadcast model didn't spring forth like Venus on the half shell. It was made.
See Robert W. McChesney's Telecommunications, mass media and democracy : the battle for control of U.S. broadcasting, 1928-35 (1995)
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Telecommunications, mass media, and democracy : the battle for the control of U.S. broadcasting, 1928-1935 : McChesney, Robert Waterman, 1952- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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