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Retooling Schooling: Who Gets to Graduate - Part 2

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phiscal
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Posted: 05.05.09, 02:20 PM
On exhibit in this forum are journalists planning stories designed to spark a "social movement" in an attempt to improve education. Journalist/activists pushing social causes - regardless of worthiness - is a recipe for lost credibility. Journalists should stick to reporting events. When journalists interpret events and recommend solutions they crossing the boundary from observors to players. Then the precious credibility the industry possesses erodes further.

Journalists, please stick to reporting. Leave the "social movements" to activists. Mixing the two reduces the industry's objectivity.
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