[DOC] [TLE] American Rhetoric: Newton Minow -- Address to the National ... [PAR] delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC ... 
Governor Collins you're much too kind, as all of you have been to me the last few 
days. ... 1960 gross broadcast revenues of the television industry were over 
1,268,000,000 .... I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. [DOC] [TLE] Television and the Public Interest - Wikipedia [PAR] "Television and the Public Interest" was a speech given by Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow to the 
convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961. The 
speech was Minow's first major speech after he was appointed chairman ... The 
phrase "vast wasteland" was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter... [DOC] [TLE] Newton N. Minow - Wikipedia [PAR] Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and 
former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. His speech referring 
to television as a "vast wasteland" is cited even as the ... The speech came 50 
years after he referred to television as a "vast wasteland" on May 9, 1961. The 
day after... [DOC] [TLE] Newton Minnow's "Vast Wasteland" speech - Janda's Home Page [PAR] This is an edited version of Newton Minow's speech to the National Association 
of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961: Thank you ... I disagree. When television is good
, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better. [DOC] [TLE] The Scathing Speech That Made Television History | TIME [PAR] May 9, 2016 ... On May 9, 1961, Newton N. Minow stepped to the microphone in front ... with 
which he described televisiona vast wastelandwould stick,... [DOC] [TLE] The "Vast Wasteland" of Television - HISTORY.com Audio [PAR] Jul 18, 2012 - 3 minOn May 9, 1961, in a speech before a meeting of television executives, Federal ... [DOC] [TLE] Newton Minow: The 'vast wasteland' of television speech - Terra Media [PAR] Jan 18, 2005 ... Newton Minow: The 'vast wasteland' of television speech ... the National 
Association of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington DC on 9 May 1961. [DOC] [TLE] Is TV still a 'vast wasteland'? - USATODAY.com [PAR] May 10, 2011 ... In a 1961 speech, then Federal Communications Commission chairman ... Fifty 
years ago, Newton Minow called TV a "vast wasteland. ... television that have 
since been used countless times to describe the popular medium. [DOC] [TLE] Minow, Newton N. - Encyclopedia.com [PAR] Definition of Minow, Newton N.  Our online dictionary has Minow, Newton N. ... 
The law used somewhat vague language, however, and it did not describe 
exactly ... During his inaugural address (a speech upon taking office) in January 
1961, ... of television programming as a "vast wasteland" and encourages 
broadcasters... [DOC] [TLE] Newton Minow, 50 years into the 'vast wasteland' - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Mar 17, 2011 ... ... Newton Minow described television as a "vast wasteland. ... of programming in 
1961 as "a vast wasteland of junk," Minow removed "of junk.". [DOC] [TLE] Television: From Vast Wasteland To Vast Wonders - Forbes [PAR] May 16, 2011 ... On May 9, 1961, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton 
N. Minow rose ... Minow lamented that When television is good  nothing is 
better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. He went on to describe the 
TV landscape of the time as a vast wasteland replete with a... [DOC] [TLE] America's First Television Czar | Mises Institute [PAR] Mar 11, 2011 ... Describing television as a "vast wasteland," Minow called upon the networks to 
.... It is the kind of speech that puts the bully in the bully pulpit. ... degree to which 
television executives in 1961 controlled the programming on their networks. ... is 
largely the result of Newton Minow's policies as Chairman of the... [DOC] [TLE] "Avast Ye Wasteland: Reflections on America's Most Famous

Question: In 1961 Newton Minow described television as this type of "wasteland"
Answer: Vast