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A Vast Wasteland Revisited – Television And The FCC In 1974 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NPR: Options – The FCC – January 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1961 then-FCC Commissioner Newton Minow took the broadcast industry to task for offering what he called “A vast Wasteland” of inane and pointless programming.…

TV News In 1974 – Terrible then – Bliss By Comparison? Past Daily Reference Room.

Critique of Evening News Shows-1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Somebody once said the definition of hitting a bottom was when you couldn’t lower your standards fast enough. I have often thought we’ve hit that bottom in 2012. A…