New FCC chief…a progressive step?
Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by admin in For Students, New Media
President Obama has picked his pal from Harvard, Julius Genachowski to head up the FCC. He guided the Obama campaign in a grass roots online strategy that paid off and he’s been a part of the transition team on innovation and technology. He’s co-founded two companies, Launchbox Digital and Rock Creek Ventures and has an impressive legal and new media background, clerking for Justice David Souter at the SUPCO and chief counsel to the former FCC chair. So he gets Washington and he gets new media. There are already critics of Genachowski from Silicon Valley, but they should pipe down for now. A lot of us think it is time this country got going in the direction the rest of the world is headed, at least with regard to technology and communicating globally with new media. Certainly one of Genachowski’s first challenges could be the resistence to make broadband available to rural America. I recently saw an ABC News documentary, called Children of the Mountains, produced with Diane Sawyer about Berea, KY. In full disclosure, that’s my home state (both Diane Sawyer and I grew up in Louisville, KY). If you haven’t seen the doc, it is a must watch, which of course you can…online! Now ,anyone who knows me knows I am not a bleeding heart liberal. 
But one thing is for sure in my mind. I think giving young people access to the Internet where they don’t have it, would go a long way to help with the rest of the economic issues challenging places like Berea and help to educate the children who live there, so they can help themselves. Kudos to ABC News, Diane Sawyer…and hopefully soon to Mr. Genachowski.
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