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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Schools Matter: PBS-Gates News Hour Features Present Randi-Roy Tag Team Against Teachers

Schools Matter: PBS-Gates News Hour Features Present Randi-Roy Tag Team Against Teachers:


PBS-Gates News Hour Features Present Randi-Roy Tag Team Against Teachers

Ever since the PBS News Hour became a subsidiary of the Gates Foundation, their reporting has suffered, both in what they cover and how they cover it.  In terms of the street actions going on in Chicago, with parents, children, and teachers raising holy hell to save their schools from corporate takeover, PBS remains a distant observer, preferring to interview a polite PBS affiliate reporter two nites ago, and then, last night bringing into the studio corporate allies, Randi Weingarten in red shirt, and Roy Romer, hovering over the desk like an ancient angry reptile.  I have included the transcript of this converation below, so that you can see the disdain that Romer brings to the discussion.

For her part, Randy declared her love for the creaky Romer, who remains one of the radical advocates for Boss