Michelle Rhee is the fault of the teacher unions. Just ask John Merrow.
John Merrow is freakin’ unbelievable.The guy once was in love with MichelleRhee.*
While I don’t think my reporting for the NewsHour was puffery, we did produce twelve (!) pieces about her efforts over the 40 months — about two hours of primetime coverage. That’s an awful lot of attention.
Did anyone else get that much air time from us? Well, yes, we also produced twelve reports about Paul Vallas in New Orleans. But Vallas never received the positive treatment (or even the coverage) from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the
