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To: DustyMoment

It was Newton Minnow, Chairman of the FCC and he called it a “vast wasteland.”


7 posted on 09/23/2013 8:57:36 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi; DustyMoment
It was Newton Minnow, Chairman of the FCC and he called it a “vast wasteland.”

Trivia moment - Sherwood Schwartz named the charter boat in Gilligan's Island after the FCC Chairman, in part due to that comment.


18 posted on 09/23/2013 9:22:28 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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