Don Lemon is only eligible to be the worst journalist of 2014 because people expect better of him. Either that, or people simply haven’t been watching enough Fox News. Sure, it’s true that Don Lemon made a spectacle of himself in 2014 by saying several of the dumbest things ever heard on CNN. But equally dumb things are heard every single day on Fox & Friends, and the rest of Murdoch’s network’s programming isn’t much better.
And, really, who’s to say that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 wasn’t swallowed by a black hole?
Exhibit A
There is so much to choose from for “worst journalist of the year” and so many potential candidates. But being the black journalist who has Anderson Cooper scoop him on what the police are actually doing in Ferguson ranks up there. Especially his “police lives matter” rant in the midst of police using tear gas and pepper spray on nonviolent protesters and threatening livestreamers. Alienating the people of Ferguson with his insensitivity to their grief ranks up as a supreme kind of cluelessness.
Guess you can’t give it to Fox every year. Especially when CNN seems to be trying so hard to lower overall standards.
Don Lemon is only eligible to be the worst journalist of 2014 because people expect better of him.
I think they had higher expectations of CNN in general. Expectations that are severely misplaced.
Any graduate of junior high school, assuming they still have science there. But, hey, teach the controversy…
OT: This is absolutely pitiful
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Little College Guidance: 500 High School Students Per Counselor
By ELIZABETH A. HARRISDEC. 25, 2014
A steady stream of teenagers fidgeting with forms and their backpacks flowed through the Midwood High School college office one day this month, all with lists of questions on their minds.
But one of the school’s two college counselors was nowhere to be found. She had taken refuge in another office, a quieter spot where she tried to pump out as many college recommendation letters as she could.
“We take turns,” said Lorrie Director, the other college counselor at Midwood, in Brooklyn. “I write at home, at night and on weekends, I squeeze them in when I can, but even then it’s not enough.”
“There’s really no other way,” she continued. “I tell the kids, there are 766 of you, and there’s two of us.”
While small private schools can often afford to provide their students with tremendous hand-holding, large public high schools across the country struggle with staggering ratios of students to guidance counselors. Nationally, that ratio is nearly 500 to 1, a proportion experts say has remained virtually unchanged for more than 10 years. And when it comes time to apply to college, all of the students need help at once.
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