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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Who Cares What Whitney Tilson Thinks?!

Jersey Jazzman: Who Cares What Whitney Tilson Thinks?!:


Who Cares What Whitney Tilson Thinks?!

What bizarre sort of logic does CNN use to select their guests?

Whitney Tilson is not an educator. He has no degrees, experience, or training in education. He has no labor relations background. He is completely unqualified to discuss the topic in any meaningful way. Why, then, would CNN think he was a good guest for a segment about the Chicago teacher strike?

Both he and Christine Romans are an embarrassment here. For example:

- Romans's xenophobic worry about China's and India's alleged large numbers of engineers is totally misplaced. The US dominates the world in true engineering training; according to experts, the Chinese definition of an