Oct
10
2003
quote of the day: public interest
"I am here to uphold and protect the public interest. Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree."- Former FCC chairman Newton Minow, to the National Association of Broadcasters in 1961 (as quoted in the Atlantic Monthly article "The Age of Murdoch" by James Fallows)
Fallows' follow-up comment on Minow's statement:
None of these rules, as rules, applied to the nonbroadcast press. But at the time of Minow's speech the idea behind them did: that the press enjoyed unusual privileges and therefore had unusual responsibilities.
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