IEA responds to the Trib’s journalistic terrorism. But in the Trib?
When the Chicago Tribune (which owns the now infamously teacher bashing LA Times) ran a story suggesting $100,000 a year teachers were commonplace in the state of Illinois (I wish!) it was the last straw for many of us. The IEA asked subscribers to cancel and daily buyers to stop.
I canceled mine. No problem really. It’s been a crappy paper for a long time.
Then the Trib ran a scare piece by the right-wing Dennis Byrne with the headline, “Pension check may not be in the mail.”
IEA President Ken Swanson and Illinois Federation of Teachers President Ed Geppert called that scare headline and the column by Byrne exactly what it was: an act of journalistic terrorism.
The odd thing to me is that they sent it to the Trib to be published as an op-ed piece. Which it was.
Am I the only one who thinks having your article published in the newspaper that you’re asking members and supporters to boycott is weird?
Here’s the IEA’s latest response to the Trib. It’s not linked to the Trib. I don’t do that.
