Right-Wing Hoaxster Smears Labor Educators | Labor Notes

labornotes.org by Jane Slaughter,Mischa Gaus | Apr. 28, 2011 (Special Report)

Two Missouri labor educators are under attack in the right-wing blogosphere from notorious hoaxster Andrew Breitbart, whose outfit was responsible for the deceptive video that took down the national community organization ACORN.

This week’s target is labor studies, specifically a University of Missouri course taught by labor educator Judy Ancel and Operating Engineers business manager Don Giljum, who’s taught labor ed classes since ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Doug Greer - Apr 29, 2011 - 11:20 AM PDT
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Journalist have to expose the hustlers who pretend to be journalists. This piece does a good job at exposing a rather transparent attempt to paint educators as a cartoon stereotype of labor activists which is very popular among the corporatist Right.

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