IP: Exploring leadership -- Kennard installment

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com>
> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Exploring leadership -- Kennard installment
> Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 07:14:37 -0700
>
> http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/kennard.htm
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> WILLIAM E. KENNARD pulls out a well-thumbed copy of the Communications Act
> of 1934, the law that established the Federal Communications Commission and
> remains its fundamental charter. He reads aloud from the first paragraph of
> Section I:
>
> ``. . . to make available so far as possible to all people of the United
> States without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion,
> national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide wire
> and radio-communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable
> charges.''
>
> The FCC's first African-American chairman looks up.
>
> ``Now,'' he says, ``when people tell me that I'm some sort of a social
> engineer or social activist when I'm trying to bring radio service to
> inner-city communities and phone service to Indian reservations and
> computers to disabled people -- I point them right back here.''