Newton Minow

Remember Newton Minow? He's the one that famously described television programming as a "vast wasteland."

And that was 50 years ago.

Minnow is still around, and he just wrote a piece in the Atlantic explaining that the two words he wanted remembered in that speech were not "vast wasteland." They were "public interest."

I think most broadcasters only vaguely remember what those words mean.

Read it if you get a chance. It's a good piece from President Kennedy's F.C.C. Chairman.