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...because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton N. Minow, the former fcc chairman who called TV a "vast wasteland" in 1961, argues in a new book (see excerpt) that children's TV is still a wasteland-and that the government ought to step in and do something about...
...shortly after President John F. Kennedy appointed me chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, I told the nation's broadcasters, the people who in those days ran the television business, that they had made television into a "vast wasteland...
More than 100 Yale workers and their families have taken advantage of the school's home-buying program, which encourages them to live in the urban wasteland known as New Haven. The program gives $20,000 over a 10-year period to any employee who buys and lives in a home in New Haven by the end of this year...
What Siberia is like: The general American stereotype about Siberia is basically true. It's cold, it's ugly, it's miserable. I lived in a big city called Novosivirsk. It was a big industrial wasteland...
Simple Minds set themselves the task of writing the musical equivalent of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. They try to capture the same vision of a bleak present mixed with a hopeful future. Drawing on the confidence they find in their rejuvenated sound, their attempt is at once captivating and convincing...