Some European Bloodbaths Are More Interesting Than Others
Why is that Islamist violence is drop-everything fascinating to US corporate media, while a massacre by a right-wing anti-Muslim zealot doesn’t seem to be worth talking about?
NYT Investigation: Union Leader NOT Satanic Beast
Readers of Saturday’s New York Times may have noticed thisthis piece (10/16/10): Despite Image, Union Leader Backs School Change By TRIP GABRIEL In “Waiting for Superman,” the new education documentary, the union leader Randi Weingarten is portrayed, in the words of Variety, as “a foaming satanic beast.” At a two-day education summit hosted by NBC […]
Unsurprising Raves for ‘Waiting for Superman’—a Big-Screen Version of Media’s Education Spin
The media accolades that have greeted the new documentary Waiting for Superman confirm what FAIR documented in the September issue of Extra!—that the corporate media debate over education “reform” is heavily tilted in the direction of those who bash teachers’ unions, cheer the White House’s Race to the Top grants and charter schools, and lionize […]
