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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something. « Fred Klonsky

IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something. « Fred Klonsky:

IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something.

Last April I caught hell for criticizing IEA Communication Director Charlie McBarron.

In your blog, you make much of the inclusion of a particular link to an item in the daily news summary.

McBarron thought I was out of line to suggest that the IEA website feature called In the News was wrong for linking without comment to an attack on the Michigan Education Association by the Mackinac Center, the right-wing anti-union phony think tank.

McBarron wrote me.

IN THE NEWS comes out every working day. We collect a thousand or so links every month and deliver them to our subscribers. It’s a time-consuming job.

Perhaps if we took the time to research every item we wouldn’t have included