Newton N. Minow, senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, is shown at his office on June 25, 2014. “I think radio and television are basically educational mediums,” he said in an interview at the time. “The question is, what are you learning?” — File photo by Chandler WestNewton N. Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s famously proclaimed that network television was a “vast wasteland,” died Saturday. He was 97.Minow, who received a Presidential Medal …