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Ex-FCC chief, public TV advocate Newton Minow dead at 97

Por: Portland Press Herald World May 06, 2023

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CHICAGO — Newton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97. Minow, who received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, died Saturday at home, surrounded by loved ones, said his daughter, Nell Minow. “He wanted to be at home,” she told the Associated Press. “He had a good life.” Newton Minow, Chairman of... + full article



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