Class Warfare Becomes Legal Warfare?
Diane Ravitch and Simon & Schuster are lawyered-up and in some back and forth about the new Steven Brill book “Class Warfare.” What seems to be in dispute is not whether Ravitch took speaking fees from various stakeholders in the education debate but how much exactly and whether Brill’s calculations are flawed.
But from where I sit the key questions seem to have more to do with transparency and obligations to disclose than speaking fees per se and how the media should balance highly informed and connected commentary with disclosure and conflicts of interest. Those are not questions with