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Newton Minow Dies: FCC Chair Who Called TV “A Vast Wasteland” Was 97
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNewton N. Minow, who shocked the nation in 1961 by calling American television “a vast wasteland,”...
Newton Minow, ex-FCC chief who dubbed TV 'wasteland,' dies
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNewton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously...
Former FCC Chair Newton Minow, who called 1960s TV 'vast wasteland', dies at 97
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoFormer U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chair Newton Minow, who lambasted television as a...
Newton Minow, Former FCC Chief Who Declared Network TV a ‘Vast Wasteland,’ Dies at 97
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNewton N. Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chief, died May 6 at his home in...
Factbox-What did former FCC Chair Newton Minow say about television?
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoNewton Minow's first speech as chair of the Federal Communications Commission was his most memorable. In addressing leading U.S. broadcast executives on May 9, 1961, in Washington, he said television ...
TV Debates Have Never Been About Substance
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoTonight, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump face one another in an unprecedented televised debate. The format has been around since...
Who died in 2023? A look back at some of the year's most memorable passings
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoOn a November afternoon in tiny Plains, Georgia, former first daughter Amy Carter, now a 56-year-old...
On This Day, May 9: President Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoOn May 9, 2017, President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey citing mistakes he allegedly...