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- Title: Promoting Innovation to Prevent the Internet from Becoming a Wasteland.
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 252 KB
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Images of a wasteland abound in our political, economic, and cultural vocabulary. T.S. Eliot, in his famous poem, was drawing on religious representations of a land rendered barren by God's wrath. (1) Eliot was referring to a metaphorical barrenness: the spiritual and existential impoverishment of post-World War I-Europe. Wasteland as physical or spiritual barrenness has come to dominate the notion of the wasteland in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The mayor of Hiroshima, speaking on the fifty-fourth anniversary of his city's bombing, referred to the nuclear holocaust as a "scorched wasteland"; and, recently, Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, similarly referred to his nation as a "wasteland." Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow's famous 1961 speech evokes a different kind of wasteland. (2) Speaking to a gathering of TV executives, he lamented that television, rather than serving the "public interest" with "a soul and a conscience," had become
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