1tv as a vast wasteland Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

MCS 005 FINAL EXAM LATEST 2023 REAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS AGRADE 1) TV as a “vast wasteland”: expression coined by FCC chair Newton Minow in 1961 to describe television content. Minow advocated for the programming of the public interest. Financial Interest in Syndication Rules (Fin-Syn) imposed: to ban networks to own or produce more programming ● Pave the way for new alternatives like PBS 2) Pseudo-eventing and news staging: pseudo-event: event that has no real infor...