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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Schools Matter: Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist?

Schools Matter: Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist?:


Is Campbell Brown Just Another Corporate Lackey Posing as a Journalist?

From Media Matters:


Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized New York teachers unions in a Wall Street Journal op-ed over the weekend without disclosing a possible conflict of interest -- her husband, Dan Senor, is a board member of an organization that opposes teachers unions.

On July 29, Brown criticized the New York teachers unions' handling of teachers accused of sexual misconduct:
Under current New York law, an accusation is first vetted by an independent investigator. (In New York City, that's the special commissioner of investigation; elsewhere in the state, it can