[DOC] [TLE] American Rhetoric: Newton Minow -- Address to the National ... [PAR] delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, ... 
1960 gross broadcast revenues of the television industry were over .... I can 
assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. .... address myself now 
to my role not as a viewer but as chairman of the FCC. ..... Top 100 American 
Speeches. [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 of the FCC by President John F Kennedy. [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 day after the 1961 
speech the New York Times headline read "F.C.C. Head Bids TV Men Reform '
Vast... [DOC] [TLE] The Scathing Speech That Made Television History | TIME [PAR] May 9, 2016 ... AP Newton N. Minow, FCC chairman, testifies before a Senate subcommittee on 
May 23, 1961, weeks after delivering his 'vast wasteland' speech. ... Washington, 
D.C. Minow had recently been named chairman of the Federal... [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 ... In his first major 
speech after being appointed chairman of the Federal Communications 
Commission (FCC) by the ... of Broadcasters (NAB) in Washington DC on 9 May 
1961. ... Ours has been called the Jet Age, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. [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: ... When television is good, nothing--not the 
theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better. ... Clearly, at the 
heart of the FCC's authority lies its power to license, to renew or fail to renew, or 
to revoke... [DOC] [TLE] Newton Minow, 50 years into the 'vast wasteland' - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Mar 17, 2011 ... He did not insert the phrase in the speech. ... Former FCC chairman under 
President John F. Kennedy wishes ... Fifty years ago in May, Chicagoan Newton 
Minow described television as a "vast ... So rather than describe a day's worth of 
programming in 1961 as "a vast wasteland of junk," Minow removed... [DOC] [TLE] Is TV still a 'vast wasteland'? - USATODAY.com [PAR] May 10, 2011 ... Former FCC chairman Newton Minow coined that phrase 50 years ago. ... In a 
1961 speech, then Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton 
Minow ... Fifty years ago, Newton Minow called TV a "vast wasteland. [DOC] [TLE] The 'vast wasteland,' reconsidered | Harvard Gazette [PAR] Sep 13, 2011 ... But on May 9, 1961, at a meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters, 
new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow did just that
. ... FCC insiders for News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast ... Minow 
gave his famous speech in what he called the television age,... [DOC] [TLE] Never Mind the 'Vast Wasteland.' Minow Has More to Say - The New ... [PAR] May 7, 2011 ... Sitting high above the Loop with Newton Minow, I realized that history buried ... 
That's how he referred to television on May 9, 1961, in his first address as 
chairman of ... the speech on the front page: F.C.C. Head Bids TV Men

Question: In a 1961 speech FCC chairman Newton Minow called television a "vast" this
Answer: wasteland