Those who can't...become spokespeople for republicans

Those of a certain age will remember a weekly segment on Sixty Minutes called "Point/Counterpoint" or the SNL send up of the segment ("Jane, you ignorant misguided slut!").  The Free Press on occasion runs a similar series called "Opposing Points of View."  All too often, it results in a chance for republicans, republican advocates, corporations, or corporate advocates to peddle their lies under the guise of being published in the big city newspaper.  The Free Press does an excellent job of abetting them.

As in these opposing pieces--the first another in a long line of recent attacks on public sector unions without merit and the second a defense of public sector unions.  The first piece, written by Michael Lomax and Michelle Rhee (she of the Washington D. C. Erasuregate Scandal--her system, as is typical of conservatives, worked so well when they cheated on their test scores--and a fine job done by the Free Press informing its readers of such), basically advocates that the best teachers should be kept, regardless of experience.  Sounds good in theory, but what it really amounts to, its ugly little secret so to speak, is ageism, which is used regularly in the corporate world where there are no unions to protect workers.  It's about cutting pay, and has nothing whatsover to do with what's best for the children.  In fact, I find it especially disgusting that republicans have the fucking gall to talk about what's best for children when with their desires to cut Medicaid and their gutting of education budgets it's brutally obvious that the children of the nation are as much a concern to them as a fly on its ass is to a hippo.

This is little more than the Free Press helping conservatives continue their assault on the poor, the working poor, and the middle class.  It's a race to the bottom--lower wages, lower benefits, and less protection for us in return for more money for corporations and the wealthy, with the Free Press giving a cover of legitimacy. 

Freedom of the press is all too often wasted on the wrong organizations.

Peace,
emaycee