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October 30, 2008
The Daily News story that got killed in the night
Parents are outraged about those fat cat educrats at Tweed Courthouse, at least five of whom earned between $1.7 and $6 million in salaries and investments last year, the Daily News was supposed to report in today’s newspaper — but didn’t, after a late-night move killed the story.
Here’s what I saw on my Google Reader when I woke up this morning:
And here’s what popped up when I clicked the story:
My understanding is that the story was slated to run today both in the newspaper and online, but then got scrapped late last night. This appears to have happened because of an outside intervention, since the story had already been uploaded to the paper’s Web site, meaning it had gone all the way through the editing process. Word of the decision to kill the story — not postpone or delay or just put on the Web, but kill — came to both print and Web designers, who dutifully destroyed it, except for one thing: the Web headline, which was still visible this morning.
Did reporter Meredith Kolodner find something that was so juicy it had to be killed? I know when I was at the New York Sun Chancellor Joel Klein would sometimes learn about a scheduled story, dislike it, and make a phone call to the newspaper’s leadership to complain about it. To the paper’s credit, no story was ever killed.
David Cantor, a Department of Education spokesman, declined to comment on both how the story was killed and what it contained.
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October 30th, 2008 5:32 pm
Nice work!
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October 30th, 2008 6:43 pm
Elizabeth-great work as always. I have suspected that Bloomberg and Klein have the juice to stop many a story about the DOE for quite some time. Their close relationship with the publishers/editors, those who support a third term points to this conclusion. Education may be the Achilles Heel for the mayor’s third term. But, only if reporters like you and folks in the schools come forward with the true results of this administrations education failures. Let’s hope.
RM
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October 30th, 2008 9:00 pm
Interesting that DOE officials are so sensitive about their personal wealth; I wonder why? It seems as though Garth Harries is the wealthiest.
Here are tidbits gathered from Google News:
Parents slam fat cat lives of Joel Klein, other Education …
New York Daily News, NY - 23 hours agoKlein with Garth Harries, who oversees creation of new schools and boasts investments of up to $6 million. Also pictured with Klein is former aide Kristen Kane.
City schoolkids and their families may be feeling the pinch of hard times, but at least five senior DOE advisers had salaries and investments that totaled between $1.7 and $6 million each last year…
Deputy Chancellor Christopher Cerf, who once ran the controversial for-profit education company Edison Schools, had between $1.8 million and $3.3 million in …
The department’s chief operating officer, Photeine Anagnostopoulos, was sitting on stocks and bonds worth anywhere from $2.2 million to $4.8 million.“It exposes a degree of insularity in this administration,” said David Bloomfield, a parent member of the Chancellor’s Citywide Council on High Schools. .
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October 30th, 2008 10:02 pm
Last week we witnessed the suspension of democracy in Bloomberg’s New York. So why should anyone be surprised that Freedom of the Press is also a thing of the past?
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October 30th, 2008 10:48 pm
NOOOOOOOO! Andrew, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Freedom of the press will not be slain by your Mayor Bloomberg and his henchmen. I am the ghost of John Peter Zenger and I have returned on this Halloween to protect young Meredith.
Go to Google and type this text exactly. The full article will be sent back from the netherworld:
cache:www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2008/10/29/2008-10-29_parents_slam_fat_cat_lives_of_joel_klein.html
WOOOOOOOOOOO! HAPPY HALLOWEEEN!!!
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October 31st, 2008 12:00 pm
It is crystal clear that Conflict of Interest rules don’t apply at the top of the DOE. The President of McGraw Hill sells the NYCDOE ACUITY for $22M/year and then leaves McGraw Hill to become the Chief Operating Officer, all along sitting on Stocks from her former employer. Her husband, a top US DeutscheBank executive is actively involved in creating portfolios focusing on EdTech firms, including McGraw Hill and College Board Affiliates, another former employer of our current Chief Operating Officer. I’m not saying that any of this is illegal, but it certainly calls into question who really is running the NYCDOE.
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October 31st, 2008 12:03 pm
As always, Elizabeth, brilliant catch.
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