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“Don’t have such a narrow vision that when doors open that look sideways and at awkward angles that you don’t have the courage to step through them, because that is where you truly get the opportunities to make a difference,” said U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren during her keynote address for “Public Interested.”

Answering the bell

Sen. Warren, others extol to College students the value, reward of public-service work

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DateJanuary 26, 2015March 8, 2019

In 1961, Newton Minow gave his famous speech in what he called “the television age,” when the government’s role, as he saw it, was to expand viewers’ choices, hoping that increased competition would lead to better programming in news, entertainment, and children’s education. Fifty years later, the topic was revisited at Harvard Law School at a discussion titled “News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited.”

The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered

Scholars, journalists debate TV, Internet, and public interest

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DateSeptember 13, 2011June 17, 2019