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Monday, July 18, 2011

solidaridad: Open note to Jim Newton regarding his July 18, 2011 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed

solidaridad: Open note to Jim Newton regarding his July 18, 2011 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed

Open note to Jim Newton regarding his July 18, 2011 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed

"When you have total control over the media and the educational system and scholarship is conformist, you can get that across." — Professor Noam Chomsky (Media Control)

We've come to expect this non-stop charter cheerleading from the Times. Newton and Stanton come off as Jed Wallace's personal public relations firm.
Mr. Newton:

I'm not a member of UTLA or any union for that matter, but I find your constant vilification of UTLA offensive and caustic. You come off as nothing more than a shill for the lucrative charter-voucher industry, and