Newton 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 programming was a 'vast wasteland' and something need to be done about it.
WASHINGTON, May 7 - Newton 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 programming was a "vast wasteland" and something need to be done about it.* "Your industry possesses the most powerful voice in America. It has an inescapable duty to make that voice ring with intelligence and with leadership.
"I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit-and-loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
"True, you will see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, try it."
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