Newton Minow, who saw television’s “vast wasteland”


Newton Minow, who saw television’s “vast wasteland” – CBS News

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Jane Pauley looks back at Newton Minow, a one-time chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, whose many accomplishments were overshadowed by the withering criticism he laid at the feet of commercial television in 1961.

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