"While journalists come in many breeds, none is more purely annoying than the hit-and-run foreign correspondent. In his classic essay “How to Be a Foreign Correspondent,” the late Alexander Cockburn described New York Times reporter C.L. Sulzberger “as the summation, the Platonic ideal of what foreign reporting is all about, which is to fire volley after volley of cliché into the densely packed prejudices of his readers. There are no surprises in his work. NATO is always in crisis … . His work is a constant affirmation of received beliefs.”

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"....Adam Bessie, assistant professor at Diablo Valley College, teamed up with Dan Archer, John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists at Stanford University in 2010–11—the first ever comic journalist to be admitted to their journalism program—and now a freelance comics journalist for hire. The two examine how the reforms intended to save our "failing schools" have, in some cases, failed our schools and, more broadly, perhaps, how society has failed our schools. Archer and Bessie want readers to think critically about hyped-up GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) reforms and provide ideas about improving schools that most readers haven't been exposed to. In other words, here's a starting point for a discussion about our nation's public schools.

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