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  • I recall from my misspent youth that Newton Minow first coined the term "vast wasteland" in reference to the caliber of television programming in the early 1960s. Television was also characterized as the "boob tube", "idiot box", and other such names for its ability to mesmerize its "victims". I do not recall who coined the other terms though.

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