Interview with Inside the Box

Newton Minow on the Inside the Box podcast, discussing the Presidential debates, PBS, and his "vast wasteland" speech. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Statement of Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

  May 7, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 7, 2023) – Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), released the following statement today regarding the death of Newton Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at age 97. “All of us at CPB and the public media family across the country mourn the passing of Newt Minow, one of public broadcasting’s founding fathers. In his first major speech as FCC chairman in 1961, Newt called commercial television a 'vast wasteland' and advocated for programming in the public interest. His landmark speech is considered one of the most influential American speeches of all time and led to the creation of CPB and PBS and the educational programming and community service that characterizes today’s public media system. “One of the most accomplished lawyers in the nation, Newt was a pioneer in the launch of communications satellites, which led to the global information revolution and the ...
Read more

From Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic

Image
  A Warning From Another Time We would all do well to remember Newton Minow’s prescience about the dangers of new technology—and his optimism, too. By  Jeffrey Goldberg SEPTEMBER 13, 2023, 7 AM ET SHARE SAVED STORIES SAVE elon musk  and   Mark Zuckerberg, two men apparently starving for both attention and meaning, have lately been promising to fight each other in a “cage match.” Charlie Warzel,  The Atlantic ’s in-house expert on this relationship (he has other responsibilities as well),  recently wrote , “As the result of an inexplicable series of firing neurons, Musk managed to not only type but also send the following two-sentence tone poem: ‘I will be in Palo Alto on Monday. Let’s fight in your Octagon.’ ” “At a sentence level,” Charlie explained, “these words, strung together in this order and seemingly without irony, are hilarious. From the standpoint of being a human, the Musk-Zuck cage match is an offensive waste of time—the result of a broken media...
Read more