Newton Minow, a chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the John F. Kennedy administration, discusses on THR's 'Awards Chatter' podcast what provoked his famous 'vast wasteland' speech in 1961.
Minow was born in Milwaukee, Wis., to Ukrainian immigrants, and grew up during the Great Depression. While still in his teens, he served the U.S. Army in World War II, helping to install the first telephone line connecting India and China. After the war, he returned stateside and became the first member of his family to receive higher education, becoming valedictorian at Northwestern and editor of the law review at Northwestern Law School.
The"vast wasteland" speech set the tone for Minow's entire two-plus years at the FCC."Most of [the broadcasters] were hostile," he says,"but the public was quite the contrary — the FCC got more supporting letters than at any other time in its history." And, sure enough, TV got better, with longer newscasts, more children's programs and the beginnings of what would grow into the Public Broadcasting System, or PBS .
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