Minow Wasteland Quotes & Sayings

The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave. — Auliq Ice

I would never heckle someone. That's why I think I'm so interested in someone that would. — John Oliver

Television is a vast wasteland. — Newton N. Minow

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic. — Angela Merkel

What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland. — Esther Dyson

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 each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. — Newton N. Minow

If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing. — Montgomery Clift

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist. — Clarence Thomas

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time. — Lemony Snicket

Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most — Frank Wynne

I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air ... and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland. — Newton N. Minow