First Mover: Robert McDowell

A Q&A with Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell.

He’s a news junkie. “I look at trade press, Washington-centric press, in both online and print, maybe 60-40. And a good old-fashioned paper that’s delivered to my driveway. I wanted my kids to see a newspaper and tell their kids.”

He does regulate his kids’ media use. “I’m a free-market kind of guy, with a libertarian drop of blood in my veins for public policy, but at home, it is a true totalitarian regime. We ration screen time. On school nights, there is no screen time unless it’s related to schoolwork. On weekends, we try not to have as many limits.”