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Newton N. Minow dead.

"Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97."

https://apnews.com/article/newton-minow ... 8072e1c8a1

And never so more than now,

I thought this thread was going to be about T1B.

Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 4:37 pm I thought this thread was going to be about T1B.

Nah. We’re not vast.

He never saw today's having a thousand channels with little on them

Yep, he was never more dead than now. Presumably.

Mikey wrote: ↑Mon May 08, 2023 6:02 pm Yep, he was never more dead than now. Presumably.

You mean dead on? Either way, this was funny.

Minow laid down his famous challenge to TV executives on May 9, 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, urging them to sit down and watch their station for a full day, “without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you.”

“I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland,” he told them. “You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons. And, endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling and offending.”.





Sixty years later...

As Wolfie noted, the explosion of channels has led to an explosion of more, and much more, sordid content.

More evidence that we are devolving, not evolving.

Does 2 x 2 still equal 4?



Wolfman?