The previous season had been excoriated by FCC chairman Newton Minow in May 1961.

However, appointment of supervisory board members has not been a transparent process and has therefore led to inefficient monitoring and poor corporate governance in some cases ( Monks and Minow, 2001 ).

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?

The Minnow was named in reference to Newton Minow, chairman of the U. S. FCC, who was most famous for describing television as " a vast wasteland ".

In the speech, Minow referred to American commercial television programming as a " vast wasteland " and advocated for programming in the public interest.

* " Interview with Minow about the state of television in 2006

" Minow called TV a " vast wasteland "; the phrase was picked up by the press and resulted in bad publicity for the networks and for the television industry as a whole.

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

Reportedly, Robert F. Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, and Minow frequently talked at length about the increasing importance of television in the lives of their children during the Kennedy presidential campaign.

Minow became one of the most well known and respected — if sometimes controversial — political figures of the early 1960s because of his criticism of commercial television.

Minow did foster two significant initiatives that altered the landscape of American television.

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

A minnow is a very small bait fish, but the TV boat was actually named for Newton Minow, who Gilligan's Island executive producer Sherwood Schwartz believed " ruined television ".

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 ".

The phrase " vast wasteland " was suggested to Minow by his friend, reporter and freelance writer John Bartlow Martin.

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.

* 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.

The current Dean of Harvard Law School is Martha Minow, who assumed the role on July 1, 2009.

On June 11, 2009, Faust announced that Martha Minow would become the dean, and she assumed the position on July 1, 2009.

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.

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

Minow has sat on the Board of Directors at Foote, Cone & Belding Communications Inc .; Tribune Co .; Manpower, Inc .; AON Corp .; CBS, and Sara Lee Corporation.

His wife, Josephine Baskin Minow, serves on the boards of many community organizations, including the Chicago History Museum.

* Interview with Barbara Bernstein on the Pico Case-Supreme Court and School Library Censorship, by Mary Minow, LibraryLaw Blog, 10 August 2009.

* 1926 – Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman

* 1960 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.

Blair Jr. and Newton N. Minow.

" Nell Minow of Common Sense Media gave the film four out of five stars ; she highly praised the casting and Shyamalan's direction, saying his only flaw was not leaving anything to the audience's imagination.

Under Minow, HLS has been navigating the fallout of the global financial crisis and subsequent recession.

" During the editing process, Minow cut the words " of junk.

Mr. Ryerson recruited a young communications lawyer to join the station's Board, and Newton N. Minow would both chair the WTTW board and also serve President John F. Kennedy as FCC Commissioner.

Newt Minow is fond of saying that the only really important decision that he made as Chair of WTTW was to recruit William J. McCarter, Jr., as President and CEO, a post he held for 27 years.

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.

Second, the Atari 5200 ( the original intended successor to the Atari 2600 VCS ) had been widely criticized for not being able to play Atari 2600 VCS games without an adapter.

He particularly criticized the Indo-European languages for promoting a mistaken essentialist world view, which had been disproved by advances in the sciences, whereas he suggested that other languages dedicated more attention to processes and dynamics rather than stable essences.

Clinton was subsequently criticized when it turned out that a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan ( originally alleged to be a chemical warfare plant ) had been destroyed.

Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

Selig has been widely criticized for not taking an active enough role to stem the tide of steroid use in baseball until it had blossomed into a debilitating problem for the industry.

The German leadership had also been criticized for failing to understand the technical advances of the First World War, having given tank production the lowest priority and having conducted no studies of the machine gun prior to that war.

Just as Claudius had criticized his predecessors in official edicts ( see below ), Nero often criticized the deceased Emperor and many of Claudius ' laws and edicts were disregarded under the reasoning that he was too stupid and senile to have meant them.

Graduating high school students with Ivy League caliber academic records have given the Honors College a closer look as a result, and this has had a trickle-down effect in improving the image of CUNY as a whole, which prior to the inception of the HC had been criticized as ' an institution adrift ' by the Giuliani administration.

To the contrary, the Agency severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians.

Jazz had always been a strong love of his, and often in his career he was criticized by " pure " country musicians for his jazz influences.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

However Robert Spitzer later criticized his own work on it in an interview with Adam Curtis saying it led to the medicalization of 20-30 percent of the population who may not have had any serious mental problems.

Lactantius criticized Diocletian for an excessive increase in troop sizes, declaring that " each of the four strove to have a far larger number of troops than previous emperors had when they were governing the state alone ".

") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.

In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice.

The picture on the right, of Dyleski in the ninth grade, which shows him in makeup and long hair, was criticized by Ellen Leonida | his defense attorney as unfair and misleading, because by fall 2006 Dyleski's appearance had become more conservative and mainstream.

The newspaper Le Figaro had vehemently criticized Pei's design, but later celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid.

When he was later criticized by Mapam members for his attitude concerning the Arab refugee problem, David Ben Gurion reminded them the events of Lydda and Ramla and the fact Palmah officers had been responsible for the " outrage that had encouraged the Arabs ' flight made the party uncomfortable.