Mondo Times Media Poll Archive

This poll ran from July 10 to 16, 2006.

Mondo Times Poll Results

"Television is just another appliance. It is a toaster with pictures." True 453/44% False 576/56%

Votes: 1029

Mark Fowler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Reagan presidency (1981-1988), speaking in 1984. Fowler said "Its time to move away from thinking of broadcasters as trustees and time to treat them in the way that almost everyone else in the society does -- that is, as a business. Television is just another appliance. It is a toaster with pictures."

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