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I don't even know anyone who attends a public school! Do public schools really suck?" <br />Or, "I went to a public school. Is it really true that I am I much, much smarter than public school students today? That doesn't sound right."<br />It's as if "public schools" are this wholly abstract concept. How did this happen? MOST people went to public school. The VAST majority! Are they all the products of failed public schools? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62748006014370576542013-06-06T12:03:43.423-04:002013-06-06T12:03:43.423-04:00I've always thought that journalist mistakes r...I've always thought that journalist mistakes resulted from being lazy, but I may be more in how they are trained. Back when Rep. Henry Hyde was overseeing the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Chicago Tribune did a front page article saying Hyde had been a force in Du Page County Republican politics for over 30 years. That surprised me as 30 years before, Hyde lived in Chicago's Edison Park neighborhood and represented a district in the Illinois House of Representatives on Chicago's Northwest Side. The flub was even more glaring in that in 1969 Hyde became Speaker of the Illinois House and started his term in controversy by seizing the Lieutenant Governor's office in Springfield as his own (voters in 1968 elected a Democrat to that post while electing a Republican governor). The Tribune's sister paper the Chicago American criticized Hyde for months for this action and its editorial cartoonist Wayne Stayskal portrayed Hyde presiding from the office from a playpen or high chair. Because of this controversy, voters in his district selected his opponent in the 1970 primary. To stay in office, the Republican Party talked an elderly member in the near northwest suburb of Park Ridge to drop out of the race so they could slate Hyde and not lose him as Speaker. Hyde didn't get to Du Page County west of Chicago until late 1981 when after he moved to the U.S. Congress redistricting took Park Ridge out of his district and he moved to the next county and the Village of Wood Dale. When I had the chance of confronting one of the reporters who contributed to the article, I ask why the assertion wasn't fact checked from the Tribune's newspaper morgue, where old articles are stored by topic. He looked at me funny and asked what a newspaper morgue was. If this is how new journalists are being trained, its no wonder they get things so glaringly wrong.Jim Hodlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-49449850255928646382013-06-05T15:30:37.693-04:002013-06-05T15:30:37.693-04:00Hey, we have to have our versions of Republican sc...Hey, we have to have our versions of Republican scandals, too. Cut it off after he says the problem is "Mom is in the workplace" and you have the equivalent of the IRS "targeting conservative organizations." (Arguably, he was just very skillful at scrambling after spilling his real feelings and realizing how it sounds.)<br /><br />Is anyone pounding directly on the MSNBC people to get their stories straight? urban legendnoreply@blogger.com