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Tag: Newton Minow
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Nation & World
‘My life was going to have to deal with issues of social injustice’
Interview with Dean Martha Minow as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered
Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.
