Word: minow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of rumor, FCC Chairman Newton Minow resigned last week. He is leaving his job to go back to Chicago as the executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica. To replace him, President Kennedy picked E. William Henry, 34, FCC commissioner only since October and now the youngest chairman in the history of the commission...
...convention of the Na tional Association of Broadcasters in Chicago, President LeRoy Collins declared: "It is incredible that the rating services have not instituted greater changes than they have, with all the indicated faults and weaknesses of their methodologies and services." Addressing the convention next day, FCC Chairman Newton Minow told the broadcasters he hoped the hearings "may encourage you to put more trust in the people and more faith in your own judgments of the public's capacity to respond to the best that is in you. I should hope that sometimes you would cancel the ratings...
...watching "light entertainment" shows than grade-school addicts, only 2% more time watching news, only 1% more time watching public affairs shows. To Steiner, the difference among educational groups lies "not in what they do, but how they feel about it." Essentially, the Harvard lawyer, or FCC Chairman Newt Minow, selects the same programs and spends as much prime time in front of his set as the kids from Kenosha, Wis. But Newton Minow-or so this survey implies-feels worse about...
...played in the honky-tonks and brothels of Sedalia at the turn of the century, ragtime would have won neither sponsors nor the approval of Newton Minow. A derivative of the Negro spiritual, it opposed a syncopated right hand to a marching bass, and it talked, as one wag observed, of the six days of the week the spirituals ignored...
Inspecting TV's new series, which have nearly all been put on display by now, the conclusion is, that by these moderated standards, the season is rather good. Responding to Minow's exhortations, the networks have largely removed from the weekly shows the only really objectionable elements they once displayed-miscellaneous sodomists, dope-addicted teen-agers kicking babies, and so on. The overall impression of the new series suggests a great bowl of mentholated cornflakes. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the corn is healthy, the humor and situations are pugnaciously wholesome, and the killing...