Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

May 9, 1958: Stanford dropped controversial figure Mulford Q. Sibley [1912-1989] and Peru apologized for stoning Vice President Nixon. The San Fran Examiner misspelled his first name as "Milford." Sibley wrote extensively on pacifism, utopianism, civil disobedience, and was an outspoken opponent of the US war in Vietnam, often speaking on the campus green, bullhorn in hand, at University of Minnesota anti-war rallies.




Her father, Newton Minow, age 35, Chairman of the FCC, told the National Association of Broadcasters to live up to the pledge to serve the public interest they made to get their licenses to broadcast over the public airways. He helped create PBS and served as its chair, helped create the Presidential debates in 1960 and the debate commission, and served 8 Presidents. Also, the sinking ship on Gilligan's Island was named after him. (with an extra N)


Newton N. Minow Speech - Quite the ear opener in hindsight!! Minow telling broadcasters to their faces that TV was a "vast wasteland."

"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 Minow (Wasteland speech)


"Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale..."

On May 9, 1961, my father, Newton Minow, delivered a speech that continues to inspire the conversation about media. He was President Kennedy’s new Chairman of the FCC, just 35 years old, and in his first major address he told the National Association of Broadcasters that while there was much to admire on television, too much of it was a “vast wasteland.” Last Friday, our family had the privilege of watching him receive the Chicago Television Academy’s Silver Emmy Award for his contributions to broadcasting, including the launching of the first telecommunications satellite, the creation of PBS, and helping to start the Presidential debates. He continues to serve as Vice Chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which he helped to form.

He told the audience about the day before the speech, when President Kennedy brought Commander Alan Shepherd, who had just become the first American in space, and his wife, to the National Association of Broadcasters event Dad would be speaking to the following day. President Kennedy invited Dad to come upstairs while he changed his shirt, to give him some ideas about what to tell the broadcasters. Dad suggested that he talk about the difference between the way Americans and the Soviet Union conducted their space program. In the US, we had all the television cameras there to show the American people, good or bad, what was happening. The authors of the forthcoming book and documentary Chasing the Moon tweeted about it today:


[https://twitter.com/ChasingMoonBk/status...6845484033]

At the time Dad called on the broadcasters to do better, there were just three national television networks. There was no PBS, just a National Educational Television which was not even available in most of the country, including Washington DC itself. My father told the broadcasters that as long as the airwaves were a scarce resource, they would have to do better to live up to their statutory obligation to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity, especially with regard to coverage of news and programming for children. He worked over the next half-century to make more choices available, including cable and satellite as well as the creation of a robust public television station. He helped get the original funding for “Sesame Street,” served as chairman of PBS and of the Chicago affiliate WTTW, served on the board of CBS, helped create the Presidential debates, pushed for closed captioning to make television programming available to hearing-impaired viewers, and argued one of the only cases in history to have a broadcast license rescinded — a station that spewed hatred across the airwaves. And in protest of his critique of television, the sinking ship on “Gilligan’s Island” was named after him, the S.S. Minnow!

Anniversary of the Vast Wasteland Speech that Changed Television, May 9, 1961

Newton Norman Minow (January 17, 1926 – May 6, 2023), his law firm hired Barack Obama & Michelle Robinson and later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.


All three daughters are lawyers. Martha L. Minow, law professor and former dean of Harvard Law School; Mary, a library law expert appointed to the Obama administration, and Nell a shareholder activist and movie critic. She was named queen of good corporate governance by BusinessWeek Online in 2003. You can follow Nell Minow (@nminow) on Twitter.

On the flip-side in this video interview from 1996 with Sherwood Schwartz...
Link is cued to start @ 17:40: https://youtu.be/7sG_bX9JhXA?t=1060

* He states TV used to be driven by Ad Agencies not TV Networks... until 1962, Newt Minow the Chairman of the FCC director changed TV (in his words, Minow ruined Television). Minow now places each network in charge of every show. Whatever they (the networks) say, goes.

* He states The SS Minnow was named after Newt Minow.

* Minow recruited Obama in 1988 to work for his law firm Sidley Austin LLP as a summer associate, where Obama met his future wife Michelle Robinson.

* Minow pursued Obama on the recommendation of daughter Martha, who was Obama’s law professor.

* Barack Obama named him a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom  for 2016.

* He is great-uncle to Adam Frankel, a speechwriter of his former protege, Barack Obama.



Herbert Krugman's Discovery (similar to hypnosis)

Herbert E. Krugman (1921 - July 30, 2016) wrote "Why Three Exposures may be enough" while he was employed at General Electric. His theory has been adopted and widely in use in the advertising arena. The following statement encapsulates his theory: "Let me try to explain the special qualities of one, two and three exposures. I stop at three because as you shall see there is no such thing as a fourth exposure psychologically; rather fours, fives, etc., are repeats of the third exposure effect. According to Krugman, there are only three levels of exposure in psychological, not media, terms: curiosity, recognition and decision.

Herbert Krugman -  Interview by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC7e1eCNMyg


"Point of order! Let's watch a movie instead!" Syndicated "Channel Chuckles" cartoon by Bil Keane [1922-2011] published May 9, 1954. If you ever wondered what a cameo from Joe McCarthy in a Family Circus comic might have looked like, now you know...





May 9, 2017: FBI director James Comey was fired. Only 621 days until these photographs can be FOIA'd.


Trump's personal bodyguard, 6-foot-4, 250-pound former NYPD narco Keith Schiller, been at Trump's side for nearly two decades. Weird how later, Vince's wife Linda Marie McMahon was the administrator of the Small Business Administration under Donald Trump. She was named chairwoman of America First Action, a pro-Trump Super PAC back in 2019. 50 years ago she financed Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump (we know how that went) and afterward filed for bankruptcy.


The Miami "no sound" machine...


Tubbs & Crockett as Shore Patrol!

SECNAV Del Toro Names Virginia-class Attack Sub USS Miami, Singer Gloria Estefan to be Sponsor

 



The tipping point is nigh...180 days.