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Newton N. Minow, who as President John F. Kennedy’s new F.C.C. chairman in 1961 sent shock waves through an industry and touched a nerve in a nation addicted to banality and mayhem by calling American television “a vast wasteland,” died on Saturday at his home in Chicago . He was 97.
His daughter Nell Minow said the cause was a heart attack.
On May 9, 1961, almost four months after President Kennedy called upon Americans to renew their…
