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"Ours has been called the jet age, the atomic age, the space age. It is also, I submit, the television age. And just as history will decide whether the leaders of today's world employed the atom to destroy the world or rebuild it for mankind's benefit, so will history decide whether today's broadcasters employed their powerful voice to enrich the people or to debase them."

—Newton Minow, in his famed “vast wasteland” speech as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to the National Association of Broadcasters, “Television and the Public Interest,” May 9, 1961.  

• Editorial Comment: Hmm, what do you think, history?

 

 

 

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Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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