Corporate Radio Picks On AFT Indiana
by Doug Martin
A few days ago, WIBC 93.1’s Ray Steele and Mike Wilson, hosts of The 10 @ 10 Show, found a tweet by AFT Indiana andwent into corporate bully mode.
The AFT Indiana tweet read:
“To all the heroes of the education world headed back to the trenches: Good luck & Thank You!”
WIBC’s hosts were offended by the war metaphor, claiming that teachers do not do anything like engage in battle from the “trenches” and that it was “outlandish” for AFT Indiana to make such a statement.
WIBC is owned and operated by Emmis Communications. Emmis’ Executive Vice President is Scott Enright, a board member of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, an Indianapolis-based national privatization propaganda mill started by economist Milton Friedman and Mitch Daniels. Emmis, as I note in my book Hoosier School Heist, was paid very well by the Friedman Foundation a few years back for ads to push school privatization.
With a board made up of Overstocked.com’s founder and many school privatization champions, the Friedman Foundation pays well, too. In 2013, CEO Robert Enlow raked in over $220,000 (see page 7). The Friedman Foundation has funded the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity (page 39) and even the Indianapolis Urban League, the latter to the tune of $20,000 in 2013 (see page 40).
As I mention in my book, Milton Friedman knew quite a bit about war, literally war against the people. In the 1970s after the CIA helped overthrow the democratically-elected president in Chile, Friedman aided the new brutal dictator, Augusto Pinochet, in beating into place a free-market scheme that still spurs protests in the streets. As Naomi Klein and others have Schools Matter: Corporate Radio Picks On AFT Indiana:
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