Why the press promotes the powerful, marginalizes dissent « Parents Across America

Why the press promotes the powerful, marginalizes dissent « Parents Across America:

Why the press promotes the powerful, marginalizes dissent

by CarolineSF

By Caroline Grannan

Parents Across America founding member, San Francisco

The press attitude toward corporate education “reform” has baffled me for more than a decade – since the national mainstream media was championing the education fad of that era, for-profit, New York-based Edison Schools – and beating up on the school board here in San Francisco for attempting to hold one Edison charter school here accountable for its commitments.

As a newsroom veteran myself, I thought of my colleagues as sharp-witted, tough-minded