I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet, or rating book to distract you and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
Newton Minow, Chairman,
U.S. Federal Communications Commission,
May 1961
| Editor's Comment: This brilliant quote by Newton Minow, Chairman, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in 1961, focuses on one of the most problematic aspects of today's society: TELEVISION. Is there any doubt that the television is a universal window to the world with which all of society has in common? --Al Colombo |
| Editor's Note: Permission is granted to reproduce this or any of the other articles and commentaries that appear on this web site, providing they appear in their entirety with the author's name, e-mail address, and www.GiantKillers.Org included. Thank you. --Al Colombo |
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