WSJ Hides Conflict Of Interest In Campbell Brown's Latest Teacher Union Smear

[Purveyor]

The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown that misleadingly accused teacher unions of "making it more difficult to protect children from molesters" and failed to disclose that Brown's husband is a board member of an anti-teacher union organization.

The Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act of 2013 from Rep. George Miller (D-CA) passed in the House of Representatives in October 2013. Politico reported that the bill will "require school employees, applicants and contractors to pass a comprehensive background check that includes a check of the FBI fingerprint database, standardizing national background check policy. It would forbid school districts from knowingly transferring employees who have engaged in sexual misconduct, and it would allow districts to share background check information."

In a January 17, op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Brown dismissed the objections of teacher unions such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) to the bill as "unconvincing," claiming the organizations' stance is "making it more difficult to protect children from molesters."

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In addition, WSJ did not disclose Brown's possible conflict of interest in writing about teachers' unions - her husband, Dan Senor, sits on the board of StudentFirstNY, an organization that actively opposes teachers' unions.

The WSJ has a habit of failing to disclose their contributor's conflicts of interest when it comes to conservative policies the paper supports. According to a 2012 Media Matters review, WSJ's editorial page published op-eds from 12 writers without disclosing their roles as advisers to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. In 2012 the paper also did not provide Campbell's background when she wrote a similarly critical op-ed of teachers unions in New York.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/17/wsj-hides-conflict-of-interest-in-campbell-brow/197645

[hrmjustin]

1. Always knew she was a right winger.

[geek tragedy]

2. Campbell Brown amazingly has a habit of writing op-eds that support her husband's ideological

agenda.

In fact, she never publishes one that goes against her husband's professional lobbying activities.

She makes staying home and baking cookies look like feminist activism.

[Purveyor]

4. Didn't she date Limbaugh for a bit...way back when? eom

[geek tragedy]

5. That was Daryn Kagan I believe. nt

[Purveyor]

7. You are right! I knew their was someone from CNN he dated. Thanks for the correction! eom

[geek tragedy]

8. now I have to brain bleach though nt

[okaawhatever]

3. More "sponsored content" from right wing media types? You know, like Rush Limbaugh, where someone

pays you to write something to support their cause and pretend like it was your idea to begin with? Like advertising without telling people. So much "sponsored content" these days, who even knows what a journalist truly thinks.

[madfloridian]

6. That's Michelle Rhee's group. Remember their offensive ad about public education?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/8465

Campbell Brown has been very obvious about her biases for quite a while.

[Cha]

9. Creepy Cons.. don't have the guts to own up to who

they really are.