Newton Minow, Former FCC Chairman, Dies at 97

Newton Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the 1960s who said network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday in his Chicagoland, Illinois, home surrounded by loved ones. He was 97. “He wanted to be at home,” Nell Minow, his daughter, told the Associated…

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