via Wired Top Stories by Matthew Lasar on 3/19/11
Fifty years ago, then FCC Chair Newton Minow gave what remains the most significant speech about electronic media in American history, excoriating the new medium as "A Vast Wasteland." In the latest edition of the Atlantic Monthly, Minow thoughtfully looks back on that moment in a piece titled "A Vaster Wasteland." But I've lived through the last 50 years of TV history, too. Like so many media reformers, Minow strikes me as reluctant to acknowledge an obvious difference between 1961 and 2011. Television is not a vast wasteland anymore. It's a crazy, weed-filled, wonderful, out-of-control garden.
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