The Wasteland Speech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.

Minow often remarks that the two words best remembered from the speech are " vast wasteland ," but the two words he wishes would be remembered are " public interest.

* " Museum of Broadcast Communications article on Minow and the speech "

* " Assessment of the speech by Minow and 24 commentators for the Federal Communications Law Journal " May 2003

* MP3 recording of the entire Minow speech, " Television and the Public Interest "

* May 9-Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gives the " vast wasteland speech " to the National Association of Broadcasters, telling them that they could do a better job of serving " the public interest.

On May 9, 1961, at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters new FCC chairman Newton Minow delivered a scathing speech directed at the " procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western badmen, Western goodmen, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons, and, endlessly, commercials, many screaming, cajoling, and offending, and, most of all, boredom [...] Is there one network president in this room who claims he can't do better?

* Wasteland Speech, a 1961 speech by FCC chairman Newton N. Minow in which he compares television to " a vast wasteland "

This was likely a CBS counter to Newton N. Minow ’ s speech referring to television as a vast wasteland.

Minow was chairman of the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1961, and is noted for a speech in which he called American television " a vast wasteland ".

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Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his Time out of Mind being named Album of the Year:

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On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

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The term phonème ( from the, phōnēma, " a sound uttered ") was reportedly first used by A. Dufriche-Desgenettes in 1873, but it referred only to a speech sound.

Together with Marie Steiner-von Sivers, Rudolf Steiner developed the art of eurythmy, sometimes referred to as " visible speech and visible song ".

The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels.

Since most of these children don't stutter as adults, this normal stage of speech development is usually referred to as pseudostuttering or as a normal dysfluency.

The ton is the heaviest unit of weight referred to in colloquial speech.

As a result, U-M gained the nickname " Harvard of the West ," which became commonly parodied in reverse after John F. Kennedy referred to himself as " a graduate of the Michigan of the East, Harvard University " in his speech proposing the formation of the Peace Corps while on the front steps of the Michigan Union.

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For many years, the speech was referred to as " the President's Annual Message to Congress ".

After their falling out, Du Bois and his supporters referred to Washington's speech as the " Atlanta Compromise " to express their criticism that Washington was too accommodating to white interests.

He attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech against immigration, now widely referred to as the " Rivers of Blood " speech.

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It is commonly referred to as the construction or operation of telephones or telephonic systems and as a system of telecommunications in which telephonic equipment is employed in the transmission of speech or other sound between points, with or without the use of wires.

Since the time of McCarthy, the word McCarthyism has entered American speech as a general term for a variety of practices: aggressively questioning a person's patriotism, making poorly supported accusations, using accusations of disloyalty to pressure a person to adhere to conformist politics or to discredit an opponent, subverting civil rights in the name of national security, and the use of demagoguery are all often referred to as McCarthyism.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

His Gettysburg Address of 1863 became the most quoted speech in American history.

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

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When the presidential election of 1856 approached, Johnson and supporters harbored a vague hope for the presidency, and he gave a speech to the Tennessee Democratic delegates reiterating his views ; some county conventions designated him a favorite son and the Nashville Union and American proposed his nomination.

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This does not happen in the non-rhotic varieties of North American speech.

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In a June 5, 1947 speech, comporting with the Truman Doctrine, Marshall announced a comprehensive program of American assistance to all European countries wanting to participate, including the Soviet Union and those of Eastern Europe, called the Marshall Plan.

This passage in King's speech is a direct reference to Amos, as translated in the American Standard Version of the BibleJoshua Heschel " The Prophets ".

* 1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts.

Fermi recalled the beginning of the project in a speech given in 1954 when he retired as President of the American Physical Society:

The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, considered one of the most well known in American history.

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

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