Mass Media | Television is Corrupting American Society
In 1961, Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, challenged executives of the television industry “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. . . .
“Is there one person in this room who claims that broadcasting can’t do better? Your trust accounting with your beneficiaries is...
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