FEDERAL  COMMUNICATIONS  LAW JOURNAL

The Vast Wasteland Revisited

In Memoriam: Fred Rogers

LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
Dean Lauren K. Robel

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Articles

TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST

By Newton N. Minow..................................395

REVISITING THE VAST WASTELAND

By Newton N Minow and Fred H Cate.........................407

THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ON THE PATH FROM THE VAST WASTELAND TO THE FERTILE PLAIN

By Kathleen Q. Abernathy.................................435

PROMOTING INNOVATION TO PREVENT THE INTERNET FROM BECOMING A WASTELAND

Zoë Baird.................................................441

MINOW'S VIEWERS: UNDERSTANDING THE RESPONSE TO THE "VAST WASTELAND" ADDRESS

By James L. Baughman......................................449

THE "VAST WASTELAND" SPEECH REVISITED

By Jonathan Blake.........................................459

MINOW AND THE "WASTELAND": TIME, MANNER, AND PLACE

By Daniel Brenner.........................................467

THE "VAST WASTELAND" REVISITED: HEADED FOR MORE OF THE SAME?

By Michael Copps..........................................473

AVAST YE WASTELAND: REFLECTIONS ON AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS EXERCISE IN "PUBLIC INTEREST" PIRACY

By Robert Corn-Revere.....................................481

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LOCAL NEWS?: THE "VAST WASTELAND" RECONSIDERED

By Geoffrey Cowan.........................................493

FROM VAST WASTELAND TO ELECTRONIC GARDEN: RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE NEW VIDEO ENVIRONMENT

By Charles M. Firestone.........................499

TV: A VAST OASIS OF PUBLIC INTEREST PROGRAMMING

By Edward O. Fritts......................511

PROMOTING THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE DIGITAL ERA

By Henry Geller..........................515

FORTY YEARS OF WANDERING IN THE WASTELAND

By Nicholas Johnson......................521

COMING OF AGE IN MINNESOTA

By Jane E. Kirtley.......................535

GOOD NEWS FOR GOOD NEWS: EXCELLENT TELEVISION JOURNALISM BENEFITS NETWORKS AND OUR SOCIETY

By Robert Leger..........................541

ELECTRONIC OASES TAKE ROOT IN MR. MINOW'S VAST WASTELAND

Edward J. Markey.........................545

FAMILY-FRIENDLY PROGRAMMING: PROVIDING MORE TOOLS FOR PARENTS

By Kevin J. Martin.......................553

A DIVERSITY OF VOICES IN A "VAST WASTELAND"

By Condace L. Pressley...................565

HOW DO WE MAKE GOODNESS ATTRACTIVE?

By Fred Rogers...........................569

THE "VAST WASTELAND" IN RETROSPECT

By Joel Rosenbloom.......................571

I WANT MY C-SPAN

By Bruce W. Sanford......................581

MANHATTAN

By Cass R. Sunstein......................585

MEASURING QUALITY TELEVISION

By Russ Taylor...........................593

SCREEN-AGERS . . . AND THE DECLINE OF THE "WASTELAND"

By Elizabeth Thoman......................601

"DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?"

By Richard E. Wiley......................611

Book Review

PUBLIC TELEVISION LAW RÉDUIT

By Herbert A. Terry .....................615

A review of The Public Television Legal Survival Guide, 2nd ed., Association of Public Television Stations, 2001. According to its preface, the book is intended for "station personnel who do not have legal training" but who need to know some of the basics for their daily work and, through footnotes, to assist "in-house station counsel and outside legal consultants." For the most part, this book fulfills that promise. Privately published by the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) in Washington, D.C. and overseen by Andrew D. Cotlar, their Senior Staff Attorney, The Public Television Legal Survival Guide quite effectively organizes and summarizes most federal law-statutory and regulatory-that is unique to public television.