A Whale of a Minow

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day then and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said. In that same speech, Minow added “when television is good, nothing— not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers—nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse.” Today newspapers are dying. Magazines and books are in the ICU and although television has hurt print the Internet and Twitter haven’t helped. If Minow were here today, what might he say about the Internet and Twitter. Donal Mahoney