“You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence and cartoons. “I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland,” he told them. Minow laid down his famous challenge to TV executives on May 9, 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, urging them to sit down and watch their station for a full day, “without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you.” Adlai Stevenson, the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 19. He had initially come to know the Kennedys in the 1950s as an aide to Illinois Gov. Minow was appointed as FCC chief by President John F. “After all, the airways belong to the people.” “My faith is in the belief that this country needs and can support many voices of television - and that the more voices we hear, the better, the richer, the freer we shall be,” Minow once said. Jacklyn Zeman, Actress Who Played Bobbie Spencer on 'General Hospital,' Dies at 70
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