How Will the FCC’s Tom Wheeler Get Past His Image Problem?

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has an image problem. The New Yorker’s article about him on the occasion of his confirmation last year was called “Obama’s Bad Pick.” In the piece, John Cassidy observed that Wheeler seemed bright and independent. “[T]o some extent, though,” he wrote, “you are your résumé,” and Wheeler’s résumé includes high-level posts at cable lobbying organizations. John Oliver memorably said in June that hiring Wheeler for the position at the notoriously mismanaged commission “was the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo.”