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Media's Failing Grade on Education 'Debate'
12/16/08

President-elect Barack Obama chose Chicago schools superintendent Arne Duncan as his nominee for Education secretary after an almost entirely one-sided media discussion that portrayed the most progressive candidate in the running for the post--Stanford educational researcher Linda Darling-Hammond--as an unacceptable pick.



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    Posted by Peter Hart on 01/06/09 at 12:21 pm

    One of the facets of the Gaza crisis not getting enough media attention is the fact that Israel has barred reporters from entering the Gaza Strip to report on the war--despite an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that stated that foreign journalists should be allowed into the territory.

    It was good, then, to see the issue raised on CNN's media program Reliable Sources on January 5. Not so good, though, were host Howard Kurtz's comments:
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    Posted by Jim Naureckas on 12/28/08 at 9:53 pm

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    Posted by Gabriel Voiles on 12/21/08 at 9:03 pm

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