" 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.

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 ".

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.

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

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.

" 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.

Minow said his greatest contribution was persuading Congress to pass legislation clearing the way for communications satellites.

Minow recounts " When I toured the space program with F. Kennedy, he was surprised to see me ".

During his two years in office, it was estimated that, other than the president, Minow generated more column inches of news coverage than any other federal official.

Mr. Minow was a prominent supporter of Barack Obama's candidacy for President of the United States.

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 ".

The incident was only one in a series of clashes between the paper and minority students at UCSB that date back to 1974, during which student Murvin Glass sued the Nexus and its editor-in-chief, Jim Minow.

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

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

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1926, Minow served in World War II from 1944 to 1946 and attained the rank of a sergeant in the U. S. Army.

After graduating from law school, Minow worked for the law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt ( 1950 – 1951 and 1953 – 1955 ) before becoming a law clerk to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of the U. S. Supreme Court ( 1951 – 1952 ).

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

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

Blair Jr. and Newton N. Minow.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Newton Norman Minow ( born January 17, 1926 ) is an American attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

* " 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.

With the support and guidance of National Educational Television already in their pocket, ETMA later received an endorsement from newly appointed FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who established public hearings to discuss the fate of channel 13.

Thereafter, it came as little surprise that after the election Minow eagerly pursued the position of FCC Chair.

While still maintaining a law practice, Minow is currently the Honorary Consul General of Singapore in Chicago.

Minow is the recipient of 12 honorary degrees.

The population are mainly Shi ' a Muslims but Sunni minority do exist, and the language they speak is Minabi ( locally Minow ), a dialect which is something between Bandari and Balochi and Persian.

Minow campaigned for President John F. Kennedy prior to the 1960 presidential election.

Minow recruited Obama in 1988 to work for his law firm Sidley Austin LLP as a summer associate, where Obama met his future wife Michelle Robinson.

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