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...wasteland" that Newton Minow complained about in 1961 is still parched; a Roper Research study found that 18% of TV viewers agreed with Minow in 1963, and 29% are with him today. Television journalism and sports coverage are getting better, and even commercials are improving; but regularly scheduled programs are still as vapid as ever. Mindless game shows and cheery-teary soapers dominate daytime television. Prime-time TV (7:30-11 p.m.) is hardly more satisfactory. The top-rated Nielsen shows for 1966-67 are either tired adventure series such as Bonanza and Dragnet or low-IQ sitch-coms...
...Oswald, TV news demonstrated its tireless capability and versatility. For millions upon millions, the President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...management consulting firm, to help in the search, and the names of outsiders reportedly under consideration got an almost daily workout in the New York press. The list seemed endless: McCall's Publisher A. Edward Miller, former Oil Company Executive Raymond D. McGranahan, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow, and Shelton Fisher, McGraw-Hill publication division president. Then last week the Curtis board of directors announced that its search had ended at last. The man had been found right at home...
Even as the board acted, Edward Miller and Newton Minow made announcements of their own. Miller said he was leaving McCall's to become president of Alfred Politz Research, Inc., a market-research firm that already counts Curtis among its clients. Minow told newsmen that he was taking a temporary leave of absence from his duties as executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica to work on Curtis problems as a "special counsel...
...William Henry is a Memphis lawyer who succeeded Newton Minow, and echoes his "wasteland" criticism of TV, is still feeling...