Back in the real world, show me a teacher who works her “contractual hours.”

My wife teaches high school, and she puts in a 12-14 hour day on weekdays, and 8-10 both Saturdays and Sundays. Most teachers I know work just as hard.

If you’re going to pick on public sector workers, going after the hours of teachers isn’t the way to go. That argument doesn’t hold up.

But isn’t spearingheading (allegedly) ethical crusades *exactly* why all-too-many “journalists” practice “journalism” (as opposed to “mere” reportage).

We’ll see, but the nonprofit movement strikes me as an attempt to re-insulate MSM “journalists” from the economic realities that *everyone else* has to deal with and, if successful, will simply recreate the assymetric attention paid to societal inequities (which led to the ongoing collapse of the MSM).

Examples of assymetric attention:

1) How many MSM stories have highlighted that public sector workers have vastly better pay, benefits, and retirement pensions then the public whose “servants” they are?

Contrast that number with the number of stories that have regurgitated the union myth that government workers are somehow “underpaid”. (Especially in $ per hour worked – look at teachers whose contractual annual hours are about 65% of those in the free market).

How many MSM stories exclusively use words like “slashed”/”hacked”/”gutted” when simply referring to *any* reduction in public sector compensation (while the private economy that *funds it* is comatose or dying).

2) How many MSM stories have focused on the inequity of lower-paid taxpayers bailing out higher paid private sector workers in the auto unions?

Banks have been properly villified as “banksters” by the MSM – why haven’t unions been properly vilified as political “mobsters”? Selling the votes of its members in exchange for political favors.

In both cases, wealth is being politically redistributed from the poorer to the richer.

Where is the “journalistic” obsession with *these* longstanding, pervasive inequities?