Newt Minow died suddenly last weekend at age 97. I had planned to be in touch with him this month regarding bad news about the presidential debates. Beyond famously describing television as “a vast wasteland,” Newt arranged the first televised presidential debate, which took place in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy; and he did more than a…
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