Ken Davis clarifies. And so do I.
Ken Davis comments on my earlier post about the discussion on his CAN TV Chicago Newsroom program:
Hoping a clarification might be in order.
The topic at that moment was press strategy and “issue management” by Mayor Emanuel’s message people.
We did call it “brilliant”, a word that’s perhaps a little inflated, but the brilliance referred only to the strategy, not to the policy. I hope no one believes that we think asking teachers to work 90 extra minutes for half the minimum wage is “brilliant”. That wasn’t our intent.
Thanks…
Ken Davis
Chicago Newsroom
Thanks Ken. I’m glad to provide the opportunity for you to clarify.
I should also clarify.
My comment that my stomach turned was aimed at Rahm Emanuel’s gaming of the Chicago media, not at the panel’s comments describing it.
However, I don’t think Rahm and his press people are so brilliant.
That the Chicago media act as a lapdog of the mayor is nothing new.
On the Chicago Newsroom on which I appeared I asked the question about how it was that Mayor Daley could go twenty years and not have the press look into his role in the John Burge tortures? Your other guest, a representative of the more mainstream media, simply shrugged the question off with “I’m not so sure.”
I can get my dog Ulysses to sit and raise his paw if I offer him a liver treat.
That doesn’t make me brilliant.
It’s what dogs do.
But I’m glad to share with my readers your clarification, separating the issue of the mayor’s media manipulation from his education policy. And that you believe, as I do, that teachers should receive a fair salary for our work.
