Commentary: How ex-FCC chief Newton Minow shaped me as an advocate and human being

America lost a titan last week with the passing of its proud son Newton N. Minow. And Chicagoans of many stripes — colleagues from the Adlai Stevenson campaign, viewers of WTTW-Ch. 11, partners at Sidley Austin, Tribune op-ed readers and friends who shared bookbinder soup at the Cape Cod Room — have lost one of those remarkable figures who was simultaneously a living legend and an incredibly down-to-earth mentsch, a truly human being.

I count myself fortunate to have come to know Newt, and his beloved Jo, during this past decade. Not surprisingly, our relationship