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W hen it comes to K-12 school reform,
one frequently hears that media
coverage is biased-although the
direction of that bias is a matter of dispute.
Championsof reforms such as charter schooling
complain that mediaoutlets are hostileto such
measures. At thesametime, critics allege that
major mediaoutletsarefavoring these policies.
Reformers lament that press coverage is generally
hostileor indifferent to their efforts. In February,
Education Post's Caroline Bermudez articulated
these concerns at Real Clear Education: There's
an anti-reform narrative that hastaken hold,
where published articles and blog posts have
become so similar, they start to blur, reading like
agreatest hitsof talking points, an amalgamation
of all the myths spewed forth against education
reformers.'
At education news website The 74, author and
former USA Today editorial writer Richard
Whitmire argued that a stunning report on the
success of New Orleans charter schools was
ignored. The national press maintained total
radio silence, he wrote. No reports appeared in
The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall
Street Journal or US4 Today.... The New
Orleans story doesn't fit into [the New York
Times] long-established pattern of covering
charter schools, which has been to portray them
as fueled by hedge funders and no-better-than-
neighborhood schools.2
On the other side of the ledger, Pam Vogel of the
progressive nonprofit Media Matters for America
saw anti union bias in newspapers. She argued,
While research shows that teachers un ions
benefit students, educators, and communities,
state newspapers editorializing on these union
activities have ignored thefactsand framed
unions and educators as selfishly seeking higher
pay at the expense of others.3
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