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When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse.
— Newton Minow

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When television is good, nothing—not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better.  But when television is bad, nothing is worse.  I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off.  I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
— Newton Minow Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest

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