News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited
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Uploaded by BerkmanCenter on Sep 14, 2011
In 1961, Newt Minow — then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission — delivered a landmark speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on "Television and the Public Interest," in which he described television programming as a "vast wasteland" and advocated for public interest programming. Fifty years later Newt Minow — and a slate of distinguished guests — reflect upon the changed landscape of television and dramatic shifts in the broader media ecosystem, and identify lessons learned that may help to offer insight into the next 50 years of media and public discourse.
Guests include Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, Ann Marie Lipinski of the Nieman Foundation, Jonathan Alter of Bloomberg View, Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School, as well as Terry Fisher, Yochai Benkler, John Palfrey, and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School. Other respondents include acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Susan Crawford of Cardozo School of Law, Perry Hewitt of Harvard University, Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law - Camden, Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times, Former Chairman of the FCC Reed Hundt, Former Chairman of the FCC Kevin Martin, Nicholas Negroponte of One Laptop per Child, Ethan Zuckerman of C4/Berkman Center.
More about this event here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2011/09/vastwasteland
CC licensed image courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41836833@N06/4935804220/#/
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The debate is not so good. But it's very informative.
katheryncruz24 3 months ago
If James Der Derian had been there, it might have been a real debate and discussion. He should be at Harvard. Then things might get interesting.
Astra292 4 months ago in playlist Technology
I disagree. It is too close and cozy, everyone seems to be related, and the debate and discussion is actually very weak. And explains the incredibly impoverished state of television and journalism in America, not to mention academia, public and private. If Newt is responsible for everything, then Newt is responsible for everything. Everyone patting everyone else on the back, for what? It is pathetic.
Astra292 4 months ago
This is simply the best discussion of the media I have ever seen. There are great thinkers tackling the real questions of the moment.
remudoctorlak 5 months ago