If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
What an apt quote for media coverage of today’s ‘educational reform’ movements.
We need journalists to do their jobs. We need them to sift fact from fiction, puffery, and politics. We need them to stop posting press releases as news stories. We need them to quit perpetrating their own injustices and, if they’re going to be biased, at least admit it. We need them to critically investigate and dissect politicians’ and educational reformers’ claims rather than fawning over them or accepting whatever nonsense spews forth from their mouths and social media channels. They’re supposed to be journalists, not PR hacks.
We deserve better.
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Journalists may be the perfect example of the fruits of American public education. Probably got great grades on their writing from all their English teachers.