Talk:Newton N. Minow

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Need to add discussion of his role in creation of educational TV in the US. This should include: testimony supporting the Educational Television Facilities Act, work for creation of WETA, Washington, WNET, New York, and KCET, Los Angeles. Also board membership of WTTW Chicago.

After all of this, it should at least be mentioned that he was (is?) director of The Annenberg Washington Program.

Please jump in and add this info, and please, please, please correct any style issues. It's my first article after all. :) Mykej 10:56, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Added a sentence explaining what the wasteland speech was about, and change the link to the wiki page. Also folded in the info from the existing "Newton Minow" page and chnged it to a redirect to here.

I originally found a blank page for Newton N. Minow by following a link from the Adlai Stevenson article, and I neglected to check for "Newton Minow" until after I'd written this article. Since there's quite a bit more info here now, the old info is included, and Newton N. Minow is more specific, I think the redirect is justified. We now won't have to worry about what to do about a Newton Q. Minow that needs an article. Mykej 22:10, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Note to self (or anyone else who wants to do it): more sources for Minow info. Surprisingly difficult to dig up, since googling returns a jillion hits about the wasteland speech. Anyway, here's stuff to check out and roll into the article:

• Law and Gilligan's Island
• bio at law firm
• NYTimes article on commission to protect civil liberties during war on terror
• Presidental debate commentary by Minow
• The Newton Minow page
• TV Museum page
• Minow on Campaign reform

Lots of good stuff if you take more than 10 minutes to look. Mykej 09:55, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mary Minow source

For some reason the non-controversial source on Mary Minow keeps getting reverted. I've restored the source yet again. If there is any good reason to keep this very plain-vanilla source out of the article, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. Casey Abell 18:57, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Goals

This is an exciting article with much potential. Since other edits are not that frequent, I plan on redoing the article but keeping most or all of the current contents, just adding more and maybe some rewrite. I don't see that there's any controversy except the above on Mary Minow. No problem, we'll resolve that after I improve the article.

I hope that the raters will hold off on rating this article (importance, etc.) until there's been a chance to improve it.VK35 18:20, 26 May 2007 (UTC)