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THE HIDDEN HARMS OF TV DRIVEL
LLLLLLLLL (In this case the TV show Mad Men) TV is so pervasive as to be inescapable in the USA in 2010. (E.g., videos by young folk on YouTube are often virtually incomprehensible because their maker… more →
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NOW, THE NEWS WITH MURPHY, MARY, AND MIKE
wrote 2 weeks ago: May 9th in history: A new show on a Washington TV station made its debut on May 9th, 1955. It was a … more →
Newton Minow was right the first time
wrote 3 months ago: On the 9th of May back in 1961 (uh, lemme see, that will have been during President Taft’s adm … more →
Are we suffocating beneath a deluge of Internet drivel?
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wrote 6 months ago: “Suddenly thanks to Google Books, JS-TOR and the like, all the great thinkers of all the civil … more →
Plotting a technological history of journalism
wrote 6 months ago: Electric telegraph July 27, 1866 – SS Great Eastern completes laying of Transatlantic telegraphic ca … more →
Tom Sawyer: twenty-something detective, with a raygun and an airship, probably
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wrote 9 months ago: Read the other day that ABC is developing a TV series based on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. In t … more →
A Vast Wasteland
wrote 9 months ago: Earlier today, I was reading from the Encyclopedia Yearbook from 1962. I had picked it up at Goodwil … more →
TRAILER - Bonfire of the Televised Profanities
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wrote 1 year ago: Bonfire of the Televised Profanities – Three girls’ endeavor to talk about the ‘Va … more →
Skipping the Vast Wasteland (or Maybe Just the Half Vast)
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wrote 1 year ago: People are shocked when we tell them we don’t have television. We have a television set, mind you – … more →
(Very mild) crisis of identity
wrote 1 year ago: I'm always finding that I'm looking up, not quite sure what to do once I get up there. Ima … more →
Reality TV Motivational
wrote 1 year ago: Click on image for 1366×768 version Newton N. Minow: “Television and the Public Interest … more →
Anthony Weiner: The Medium is the Mess
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wrote 1 year ago: On Monday, June 6, Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted that he sent a revealing photo of himself to a woman … more →
The Wasteland at 50
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wrote 2 years ago: Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Newton Minow’s famous “vast wasteland” speech. That’s the mani … more →
Vast Wasteland
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wrote 2 years ago: Fifty years ago today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow spoke to the National … more →
Newton Minow's Vast Wasteland, Take 2
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wrote 2 years ago: Fifty years ago today, Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow delivered a speech to the Na … more →
FCC Chairman Newton Minow 50 years later: a vaster wasteland
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wrote 2 years ago: In the April 2011 edition of Atlantic Monthly there is an article by former FCC Chairman Newton Mino … more →
How TV's "vast wasteland" became a vast garden
wrote 2 years ago: Former FCC Chair Newton Minow has published a new essay reflecting on his famous “vast wastela … more →
Has our ability to choose and create content redefined what's important or made a mockery of it?
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wrote 2 years ago: Turmoil in the Libya! Bracketology! SXSW! Catastrophe in Japan! Tiger’s Blood & Adonis DNA! Reme … more →
The Vast Wasteland
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wrote 2 years ago: One of my past blog posts included a photograph of Barnabas Collins, the main character in “Da … more →
CBS 2 School: Foreign Policy Wasteland
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wrote 2 years ago: Fifty years ago Newton Minnow, as Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, called televisio … more →
