Julius Genachowski is resigning as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.  He probably did the best he could during his tenure, considering the shark  environment in Washington, but he just wasn’t up to resisting corporate pressure as much as media reform activists would have liked.    So it is time now for a public interest minded FCC chair in the tradition of Michael Copps or Nicholas Johnson. Some say Susan Crawford, author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age,  could be that someone.   [There has been speculation about possible replacements. Mignon Clyburn, who will be the senior Democrat on the Commission,  has also been mentioned].   Now is the time to influence the president’s choice.  This is a short video of Susan Crawford’s remarks at the National Conference on Media Reform 2013 held in Denver last weekend.