27 Feb News Brief: Dem-Aligned Media Set Up Teachers Unions to Take the Fall for Midterm Losses
Citations Needed | January 21, 2021 | TranscriptVia USA Today[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/news-brief-dem-aligned-media-set-up-teachers-unions-to-take-the-fall-for-midterm-losses[/embed][Music]Nima Shirazi: Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow Citations Needed on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, and become a supporter of the show through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast. All your support through Patreon is incredibly appreciated as we are 100 percent listener funded. Happy New Year everyone. We’re going to be back very soon with full length episodes as usual for all your listening pleasure but in the meantime, we are here today with a News Brief which we do in between our full length episodes when there is something that we just really feel like we need to talk about, and today, Adam, we really wanted to talk about what we are currently experiencing in our COVID reality, the winter of labor discipline and, of course, management discontent.Adam: Yeah, so over the past few weeks there’s been a full-scale media pile-on of teachers’ unions as the new boogeyman for the midterms in 2022. They’re already setting many pundits like Jonathan Chait, you...