Going Green
Considering the plight of newspapers around the country, perhaps a reporting gig on an Internet news site is a savvy, ground-floor career move, but I’m still old-school enough to think that Elizabeth Green of Gotham Schools needs a larger venue to display her considerable journalistic skills.
She was first on the KIPP union organizing story, first on the KIPP union decertification story, first on the Jackson Heights charter story, and her latest coup is, of course, the United Federation of Teachers cue card check scandal, which is making the rounds of all the city’s news outlets with hardly an acknowledgment of Green.
It’s a sad statement that in the widely touted democratization of the media, we have 1,000 people issuing editorials on NCLB, or Arne Duncan, or performance pay, for every Elizabeth Green, who is actually working the beat, developing original material, and scooping the big boys.
UFT’s cue card ploy is more than an embarrassing story, it’s a symbol of how manipulated much of our education news is. Thank heavens we have at least one reporter who is off-script. If only there were more.
April 9th, 2009 at 19:09
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April 11th, 2009 at 12:08
“it’s a symbol of how manipulated much of our education news is. Thank heavens we have at least one reporter who is off-script. If only there were more.”
Is there a better symbol of manipulation of education news than EIA? Of course Elizabeth has broken other stories that exposed the DOE. Somehow they don’t make your list.