• Advertising Age, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:30 PM

Interesting interview with former FCC head Newton Minow, he of the famous "TV is a vast wasteland" quote. Now, he says, "it's vaster,"and probably less of a wasteland because viewers have a "wider range of choice... The most constructive thing the FCC could do was to expand choice. And in that we certainly succeeded."

Many of the points he made in his speech to the National Association of Broadcasters 50 years ago -- when he first coined that phrase -- are still relevant, as is his mention of violence on TV as the worst problem at the time: "Sadly, I think it still is," he says now.

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