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...junkies using TV Guide as a syllabus is unsettling to parents who believe that serious learning comes from books. Teachers who have used one form or another of prime-time education, however, regard TV not as a "vast wasteland," in the memorable epithet of former Federal Communications Commissioner Newton Minow, but as a vast resource waiting to be tapped. One TV watcher who agrees is Minow himself, who now sits on the PTST board. Says he: "The most important educational institution in the country is not Harvard or Yale or Caltech-it's television." For better or for worse...
...greater vote." Partial proof that the more mature viewer may be alienated is the increasing popularity of public television, which still programs for adults with literate shows like I Claudius. "The public is smarter and wiser than the people who make programming decisions," says former FCC Chairman Newton Minow. "A lot of the network programs are not up to the level of the audience...
...reassemble it to the point that the medium's ambitions seem extravagantly metaphysical. To others, TV is all of civilization's banality crammed into a buzzing home appliance designed to cause brain damage. As a witness to actuality -its "news function"-television can be journalistically incomparable (Newton Minow exempted news from his famous 1961 charge that television was a "vast wasteland"), but its effects are complicated...
Newton N. Minow Chicago...
Says Newton Minow, former head of the FCC: "I sense a reappraisal is now being made by Americans generally, and I sense a confusion on the part of American Jews about what it all means." Says Brandeis University President Marver Bernstein: "From a Jewish point of view, the danger is that the sentiment in favor of Israel is now counteracted by declining guilt over the Holocaust and an increased sympathy for the Palestinians. And we are under great pressures of both military and economic policy that we were not under before." Says Myron Kolatch, executive editor of the New Leader...