Question

statements supporting minows position factual statements but when television is bad, nothing is worse. ours has been called the jet age, the atomic age, the space age. it is also, i submit, the television age. you will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western badmen... minows indictment of commercial television launched a national debate about the quality of programming. i can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland. there are some fine childrens shows, but they are drowned out in the massive doses of cartoons, violence, and more violence. like everybody, i wear more than one hat. i am the chairman of the fcc. on may 9, 1961, he spoke to 2,000 members of the national association of broadcasters and told them that the daily fare on television was \a vast wasteland.\

Explanation:

The problem involves analyzing statements related to Minow's position on television, which falls under Media and Communication (a subfield of Social Science) as it deals with media content and its impact. We need to identify which statements support Minow's position. Minow criticized the quality of TV programming, so statements describing negative TV content (like the one with game shows, violence, etc., and "vast wasteland") and the one about his indictment launching a debate support his position. The factual statements include context about the TV age and his role, but the supporting ones are the critical descriptions of TV content and the debate.

Answer:

The statements "You will see a procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western badmen,...", "I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland", and "Minow’s indictment of commercial television launched a national debate about the quality of programming" support Minow's position (along with "But when television is bad, nothing is worse" and the TV age statement as context, but the main supporting are the critical content and debate statements).