 Wysłany: Sob 2:31, 09 Paź 2010 Temat postu: Tales of a Bankrupt Culture |
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| One teacher reportedly was so distressed by the publication of an unfair ranking that he was driven to suicide.
The Tribune Company owns the LA Times which published student test scores and then rated LA teachers based on them. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated) They have led the charge for merit pay, teacher firings and for the destruction of teacher pensions. A few months ago they ran what was their latest dose of yellow journalism on the alleged over priced teachers who teach in Chicago area schools. Mr. Michaels, a former radio executive and disc jockey, had been handpicked by Sam Zell, a billionaire who was the new controlling shareholder,throwback jerseys, to run much of the media company’s vast collection of properties, including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, WGN America and The Chicago Cubs. After Mr. Michaels arrived, according to two people at the bar that night, he sat down and said, “watch this,” and offered the waitress $100 to show him her breasts. The group sat dumbfounded. “Here was this guy, who was responsible for all these people, getting drunk in front of senior people and saying this to a waitress who many of us knew,cheap jerseys,” said one of the Tribune executives present, who declined to be identified because he had left the company and did not want to be quoted criticizing a former employer. “I have never seen anything like it.” Related Articles ‘New York Times’ Looks at Craziness inside Tribune Company; Sam Zell’s CEO Says ‘Ignore the Noise’ (observer.com) This CEO Will Pay to See Breasts, or, How Not to Run a Media Company [Disasters] (gawker.com) “Tribune Co. CEO Michaels: ‘Ignore the noise’ of New York Times story” and related posts (newsblogs.chicagotribune.com) At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture (nytimes.com) At Flagging Tribune,football jerseys, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) Yet an article in the NY Times describes a Tribune corporate culture so decadent and vile that it is the stuff of an over-the-top TV melodrama on Fox. The Trib's Randy Michaels on the left. Study: Teacher Bonuses Don’t Affect Student Tests The Chicago Tribune is notorious for its anti-union editorial stand. |
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