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	Wasteland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wasteland (mythology), the Celtic motif of the land of the Fisher King
		The Wasteland Speech by Newton Minow on the supposed worthlessness of television
		Wasteland (band), a five-piece hardcore band from western Massachusetts
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wasteland (223 words)

	Wasteland
		Wasteland was first distributed for the Apple II platform and ported to the Commodore 64 in 1987.
		Wasteland was rereleased as part of Interplay's 10 Year Anthology: Classic Collection in 1995, and also included in the 1998 Ultimate RPG Archives[?] through Interplay's DragonPlay[?] division.
		Wasteland was followed in 1990 by a less-successful sequel, "Fountain of Dreams", set in post-war Florida.
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	List of speeches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John F. Kennedy gives his memorable inauguration speech.
		This is a list of speeches, mainly in the English language, that have historical significance of various degree.
		Famous speeches by Presidents, Prime Ministers and Martin Luther King
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_speeches (511 words)

	Bob Greene
		Minow's speech received extensive coverage -- and was so influential, in the way it focused attention on television's alleged failings, that its anniversary has been noted this year.
		Speeches get made all the time -- on the floors of legislatures, at banquets, at corporate events -- but there is something vaguely old-fashioned-feeling about them as a form.
		Fact is, speechwriters for a long time have constructed speeches precisely that way: They determine what nugget of a message can be summed up in a paragraph, then build the rest of the speech around it.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /bob/greene052401.asp (772 words)

	Opinion by Dale Dauten: The speech, not the speaker, is what matters to audience \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The marvelous speeches have a well-defined thesis, stated with passion, and that's why we know many of them by a catchphrase.
		Further, the best speeches are brilliantly prepared, with no pretense of spontaneity, for they are clearly being read from a script.
		The great speeches reach into the audience's heart, take hold of the best of what's there, and hold it up for them to admire.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/90440 (770 words)

	The "vast wasteland" revisited
		The special issue, given the theme, "The Vast Wasteland Revisited," includes commentary by 24 leading communications attorneys, government officials, producers, entertainers, commentators and public interest advocates, including a posthumous article by Fred Rogers, creator and host of the longest-running PBS series, "Mister Rogers Neighborhood." The issue is dedicated to Rogers.
		Minow's address in 1961 to the National Association of Broadcasters is among the most quoted of all 20th century speeches.
		The Federal Communications Law Journal issue republishes the 1961 speech and includes a new article by Minow and Fred H. Cate, IU Distinguished Professor and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow, reassessing that speech, the media market of today and Minow's illustrious career.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/965.html (951 words)

	Printers' Ink
		We've been watching Newt lgfnow's behavior ever since he unloaded his "vast wasteland" speech last May. I-Ie gave us the creeps then, as a reform- er who covered an awful lot of territory with a scattergun.
		We said at the time that there is '% growing trend among imaginative broadcasters and advertisers toward high-quality programing, and this was already recognized as one of the biggest industry developments of the year when Minow stood up to make his remarks.
		Not long after his wasteland speech, for in- stance, he praised a particular show as an example of good programing--and critics blasted it.
	tobaccodocuments.org /lor/91276241-6311.html?start_page=71&end_page=72 (994 words)

	John Bartlow Martin Papers (Library of Congress)
		Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, drafts, notebooks, research files, political campaign files, family and estate papers, photographs, and other papers documenting Martin's career as a free-lance journalist, his role as an advance man, speechwriter, and adviser to Democratic presidential candidates, and his service as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
		Known as the "Vast Wasteland" speech and located in the Speech File, it presented a pointed critique of television programming and suggested the lost promise of a generation.
		As an advance man, campaign speech writer, and political adviser to all of the Democratic presidential candidates from Stevenson in 1952 to George McGovern in 1972, Martin was in a good position to observe and chronicle the development of the modern political campaign at the national level.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/martinjb.html (7286 words)

	Amazon.com: Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment: Books: Newton N. Minow,Craig L. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Minow created news when, in 1961, as head of the Federal Communications Commission, he called television in the U.S. a "vast wasteland." Here, writing with communications scholar LaMay, he presents a cogent argument for replacing violent, brutal TV fare with constructive programs that motivate children to learn while transmitting democratic values.
		wasteland speech, saving radiance, television marketplace, broadcast regulation, commercial broadcasters, televised violence, ooo hours, child audience, television violence
		It is to a dictator's advantage for the populace to be a slave to their passions, rather than a people working together to determine what literature and entertainment will promote within their children respect for the dignity of people.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809023113?v=glance (1854 words)

	Nicholas Johnson, Forty Years of Wandering in the Wasteland
		Over the protests of a staff aide, who insisted the chairman remove the offensive "vast wasteland" phrase from his speech text, Minow persisted, ignored the advice, and is forever remembered for his two-word characterization of television programming in 1961.
		The "wasteland" critics of the 1960s have far less to complain about today in terms of number of formats, and the quantity of news, public affairs, and cultural programming.
		Nothing that has occurred since the "Vast Wasteland" speech lessens the concerns which the Author first published as Nicholas Johnson, The Media Barons and the Public Interest: An FCC Commissioner's Warning, Atlantic Monthly, June 1968, at 43, available at http:// www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/media/johnsonf.htm (last visited Mar.
	www.nicholasjohnson.org /writing/masmedia/55FCL521.html (5199 words)

	Speech by The Honorable Barbara Lee, Representative of California, Democrat : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Speech by The Honorable Barbara Lee, Representative of California, Democrat : SF Indymedia
		Text of Speech by The Honorable Barbara Lee, Representative of California, Democrat At the "No War on Iraq" March in San Francisco: Saturday, January 18, 2003.
		And now, this weekend, you are standing on a wasteland of war, but we don't have to throw ourselves in, and that's why you're here today.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/01/1562098.php (626 words)

	Wasteland - TheBestLinks.com - Land, Stephen King, The Waste Land, The Waste Lands, ...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Wasteland.html (114 words)

	TVTechnology - The Big Picture
		Kennard’s "spectrum squatters" address on Oct. 10 at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City is already being compared to the infamous "vast wasteland" speech by his predecessor, Newton Minow, during the Kennedy administration in 1961.
		Attending a private breakfast with Kennard and industry leaders at the museum prior to his public speech was Mel Karmazin, president/COO of Viacom, owner of the CBS television network.
		The New York speech was clearly a watermark for Kennard’s chairmanship, which – depending on who is elected the next president – could come to an abrupt end next year.
	www.tvtechnology.com /features/Big-picture/f-FB-Kennard.shtml (812 words)

	Wasteland
		The South African wasteland: totalitarianism, apartheid, and the responsibility of the writer.
		Ballpark Village or urban wasteland: rhetorical invention, civic ego, and the St. Louis Cardinals' controversial new home.
		The "vast wasteland" in retrospect.(1961 speech on television by Newton Minow)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0780301.html (198 words)

	Children and Television Violence: Christian Resource Centre (Bermuda)
		This address was recorded by history as the "vast wasteland" speech, and it became a symbol for television in the 1960's.
		Minow was to revisit the vast wasteland 30 years later in 1991.
		Broadcasters were so surprised by Newton Minow's vast wasteland speech that they ultimately agreed to assign large parts of the UHF spectrum to public broadcasting.
	www.nisbett.com /child-ent/children_and_television_violence.htm (6689 words)

	blogologie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a 1961 speech, then Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton Minow famously described television as a “vast wasteland.” Minow’s speech arrived roughly two decades after the United States public had embraced television.
		But I do see the very real prospect of an FCC Chair giving a precisely parallel speech with a precisely parallel indictment of the Internet in the next decade or so.
		The heart of Minow’s criticism was that broadcasters were not honoring their collective obligation to serve the public interest.
	www.logie.net /2005/09/stumbling-toward-vast-wasteland-20.html (945 words)

	FCLJ Vol 47 No. 2 - Minow
		Almost overnight, "vast wasteland" entered the public lexicon, and it is still being used to describe television.
		What I meant by "vast wasteland" is that we do not serve the public interest if we continue to waste television's precious potential to educate, inform, and entertain our children.
		Our choice is not between free speech and the marketplace on one hand and governmental censorship and bureaucracy on the other.
	www.law.indiana.edu /fclj/pubs/v47/no2/minow.html (1847 words)

	American Nationalist Union Discussion Board: "The Vast Wasteland of TV"
		Below is an edited version of Newton Minnow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961--nearly 45 years ago.
		Minnow referred to a "vast wasteland" of TV at that time, but at the very outset, I must state that Minnow is no hero of mine.
		If Minnow had been an actual "dissident" rather than someone from the ruling class trying to fine-tune the status quo his speech would have been completely ignored, or else he would have been smeared as an "extremist" of some kind.
	www.anu.org /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=538&PN=1 (1761 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest, by Newton N. Minow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Minow's speeches shows that he tried to do something as FCC Chairman.
		...But what it shows most clearly, from the famous "vast wasteland" speech forward, is that neither taste nor intelligence nor energy nor even courage, nor all of these put together, can bring the light to American television...
		...Minow's widely publicized debut speech, a lady in Des Moines wrote to him: "I have checked three issues of TV Guide and I have gone through the TV listings in the daily paper...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V39I2P82-1.htm (1265 words)

	Raised-Eyebrow Oversight Keeps Broadcasters in Line,
		Limbaugh says he is "frightened" when the government gets involved in content and fears the censoring of political speech on radio.
		First Amendment framers would cringe to think their precious free speech principle, designed to fuel the conversation of democracy, would be used to defend the "rights" of smut broadcasters to shock the public with messages that have no political or social value.
		In 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow bashed the television industry in his "Vast Wasteland" speech, criticizing broadcasters for programming too much "blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder." This raised-eyebrow technique got the industry's attention for a short while, reducing violent content and sparking new program initiatives.
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		Newton Minnow's Vast Wasteland Speech to the National Association of Broadcasters
		This is an edited version of Newton Minow's speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961
		You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience-participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western badmen, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons.
	www.quoteworld.org /docs/nmvas328.php (1383 words)

	Reality shows take over American TV - PACIFIC Magazine
		I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and loss sheet or rating book to distract you - and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off.
		When Minow gave his famous "vast wasteland" speech in 1961, he lamented television's prevalence of game shows, cartoons, and formula comedies.
		It is hard not to smile at the thought of Minow, filled with optimism at the presumed maturation of television, turning on a television set in the 21st century.
	www.pacificu.edu /magazine/inside/index.cfm?insideid=8 (1114 words)

	Vast Wasteland Speech - Audio Book Spot.com
		On May 9, 1961, Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, invited Americans to spend a day in front of their television sets.
		He promised that they would witness a "vast wasteland." "When television is good nothing, not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers, nothing is better," he says.
		"But when television is bad, nothing is worse." Minow's speech, which blasts the shallowness of television content, as well as the prevalence of on-air violence, is considered a landmark in media criticism.
	www.audiobookspot.com /audio_book/690.html (92 words)

	TABLE OF CONTENTS
		In an important speech on February 28, 2000, FCC Chairman William Kennard exposed the chasm between optimal policy and regulatory practice at the FCC.
		Given the ban on regulation of free speech in the U.S. Constitution, this was a formidable regulatory achievement.
		As the rents accruing from parsimonious spectrum allocation policies (licensing many fewer broadcast competitors than could utilize the airwaves) were substantial in the golden eras of radio and television broadcasting, the incentives for radio and TV interests to play the quid pro quo game were high.
	jolt.law.harvard.edu /articles/pdf/other/hazlettwebprep.htm (15771 words)

	Film & TV: TV Eye (Austin Chronicle . 11-16-98)
		This was another show inspired by the FCC Chairman's 1961 "TV wasteland" speech.
		In its ludicrous concept, the group of children forming the Funny Company Detective Agency were constantly battling agents of foreign governmments, prime Cold War mythology.
		Crashcup was another post-Wasteland speech creation by The Alvin Show creator Ross Bagdasarian, better known as Dave Seville.
	weeklywire.com /ww/11-16-98/austin_screens_tveye.html (831 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		The broadcasters were quite happy with this arrangement, public interest advocates claimed to be furthering the public good through participation in Byzantine FCC rule makings, and regulators could make a very nice career hectoring broadcasters for their poor performance while simultaneously thwarting the potential sources of competition broadcasters feared most.
		The classic demonstration of such regulatory acrobatics still belongs to the famed FCC Chair Newton Minow who, shortly after delivering his famous “Vast Wasteland” speech at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in 1961, returned to Washington DC to impose strict limits on the development of cable television in 1962.
		Niche programming has undermined the “vast wasteland” by providing a “vast choice-land.” More of all types of content is available, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.13310,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (1342 words)

	The Quotations Home Page - Alphabetical by Author - Series 17
		I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air, and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off.
		I assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
		Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby.
	www.theotherpages.org /alpha-m3.html (1740 words)

	Chairman Kennard's 3/24/99 Remarks "Television in the Digital Age" before the Variety/Schroders Media Conference in New ...
		Almost 40 years ago, when he was Chairman of the FCC, Newt Minow gave a very famous speech to the National Association of Broadcasters about the state of television.
		Most people remember it as the "vast wasteland" speech.
		But there was another important point that he made in that address.
	www.fcc.gov /Speeches/Kennard/spwek913.html (2072 words)

	FOX Chicago \| News \| Closer Look \| Newton Minow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The "vast wasteland" line made the youngest-ever federal communications chief an immediate cultural icon.
		"I was surprised that the words 'vast wasteland' lived on," he says.
		"The moment the ratings indicate Westerns are popular, there are new imitations of Westerns," Minow said in his famous speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
	www.foxchicago.com /_ezpost/data/32281.shtml (832 words)

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