This link has been bookmarked by 9 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Oct 2007, by Arne Løining.
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13 May 14
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08 Apr 14
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n his 1995 book Abandoned In The Wasteland, former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow (the originator of the "vast wasteland" quote in 1961) lamented how Americans have passively let television take over their homes and become the centerpiece of children's lives:
"In the 1930s and 1940s, television's creators expressed their hope that the new medium would be the greatest instrument of enlightenment ever invented, a blessing to future generations. They were wrong. . . . No other major democratic nation in the world has so willingly turned its children over to mercenary strangers this way. No other democratic nation has so willingly converted its children into markets for commercial gain and ignored their moral, intellectual, and social development."
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17 Jan 13
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Is television actually making us stupid? After all, this is a device nicknamed "the boob tube" and "the idiot box." Television was once famously called the "vast wasteland," a moniker that has stuck since it was spoken. Can we look to television to show us the status of society? Does TV reflect the nation's intellectual capacity and contribute to its decline at the same time?
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Is television actually making us stupid? After all, this is a device nicknamed "the boob tube" and "the idiot box." Television was once famously called the "vast wasteland," a moniker that has stuck since it was spoken. Can we look to television to show us the status of society?
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In the 1930s and 1940s, television's creators expressed their hope that the new medium would be the greatest instrument of enlightenment ever invented, a blessing to future generations. They were wrong. . . . No other major democratic nation in the world has so willingly turned its children over to mercenary strangers this way. No other democratic nation has so willingly converted its children into markets for commercial gain and ignored their moral, intellectual, and social development.
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"In the 1930s and 1940s, television's creators expressed their hope that the new medium would be the greatest instrument of enlightenment ever invented, a blessing to future generations. They were wrong. . . . No other major democratic nation in the world has so willingly turned its children over to mercenary strangers this way. No other democratic nation has so willingly converted its children into markets for commercial gain and ignored their moral, intellectual, and social development."
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