The Seattle Post-Intelligencer deserves a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in the category "Single Most Idiotic Line Ever Penned by a Newspaper Reporter". See today's article by Deborah Bach on the search for a superintendent of Seattle public schools:
Castro, 56, a former superintendent in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the most favored candidate among stakeholder groups, including the two unions representing local teachers and non-instructional school employees.Yes, that's right. The schools' most important "stakeholders" are teachers and bus drivers. Nobody else has a stake, not even the schoolchildren or their parents. Not to mention the taxpayers. Or the businesses that end up having to hire the hundreds of youngsters who finish high school every year unable to read, think critically, or do arithmetic.
But at least the Seattle Post-Intelligencer deserves praise for absorbing more than its fair share of the functionally illiterate and giving them jobs as reporters and editors.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 07, 2003 07:01 AMWhile that is pretty appalling, it's nowhere close to the stupidest line penned by a reporter - that line shows more intelligence, insight, and connection to the real world than most Mark Morford columns in the San Francisco Chronicle
Posted by: Anthony on October 7, 2003 09:25 AMYes, Morford is a very silly columnist, but he's not really a reporter.
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on October 7, 2003 09:27 AMShe didn't say the "most important" stakeholders were teachers and bus drivers, just that those were included in the group of stakeholders. The sentence implies there are others. Learn how to read!
Posted by: Sean on October 11, 2003 09:27 AM