by Christina Warren
Fifty years ago today, on May 9, 1961, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow gave a speech at the National Association of Broadcasters where he referred to the television landscape as a “vast wasteland.” The speech, titled “Television and the Public Interest,” is frequently cited as one of the best American speeches in the 20th century. In 2007, the speech was named number 22 in “The Best of Vital Speeches of the Day: 25 Speeches That Changed Our World.”...[continued]
