View Post People | Politics Newton Minow: Debate Moderators Facing Criticism ‘Much More Than Has Ever Happened Before’ By Alissa Krinsky on Sep. 20, 2016 - 4:15 PM What does the man who coined the term "vast wasteland" think about Megyn Kelly's primary debate question to Donald Trump?
View Post PBS New Season of PBS’ ‘The Open Mind’ Premieres Saturday with Familiar Host By Brian Flood on Jan. 1, 2015 - 3:03 PM A new season of PBS’ “The Open Mind” premiers on Saturday with new host Alexander Heffner. If the name sounds familiar, that is because Heffner is the grandson of the original host, Richard D. Heffner. “Open Mind” pr ...
Politics Presidential Debates: ‘A Glimmer In The Vast Wasteland’ Of TV By Alex Weprin on Oct. 3, 2012 - 2:15 PM In today’s New York Times, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow writes about the Presidential debates. Minow serves on the Commission for Presidential Debates. The debates are an institution now, and among the most watched tele ...
TV Biz Sander Vanocur on TV News today: ‘I think they incite…They stir us up’ By Alissa Krinsky on Sep. 28, 2010 - 7:00 AM It was September of 1960, and NBC News correspondent Sander Vanocur was on the campaign trail. “I was covering [Richard] Nixon in Mississippi,” Vanocur tells TVNewser, “and I got a call from NBC in New York to sa ...