Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's new fixer, Joel Klein

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Murdoch's new fixer, Joel Klein

Murdoch's new fixer, Joel Klein

Reforming the "reformers"

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Johnny-come-lately school reform profiteer Rupert Murdoch has to deal with yet another scandal. It seems his people have been doing some phone hacking, bribing and spying on police on behalf of some murder suspects -- or something like that. Who the hell can understand this latest Murdoch mess?

So who does he call on to bail his News Corp conglomerate out of trouble? None other that fixer Joel Klein, former N.Y. schools chancellor. It was Klein who recently engineered the $400 million-dollar deal between News