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Download full textWatson, Mary Ann – 1983
Appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by President Kennedy in 1960, Newton Minow disturbed the traditionally comfortable relationship between the commission and the broadcast industry. In his first major speech, he outraged industry officials by attacking television programming as "a vast wasteland" and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Industry, Change Agents, Childrens Television
