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oilgun:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, how could you?!!
School Reform's Propaganda Flick
The guys behind "Won't Back Down" stand to profit from education privatization. No wonder the movie hates on teachers unions
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
The first thing to know about Friday’s opening of the school-choice drama “Won’t Back Down” is that the film’s production company specializes in children’s fantasy fare such as the “Tooth Fairy” and “Chronicles of Narnia” series. The second thing is that this company, Walden Media, is linked at the highest levels to the real-world adult alliance of corporate and far-right ideological interest groups that constitutes the so-called education reform movement, more accurately described as the education privatization movement. The third thing, and the one most likely to be passed over in the debate surrounding “Won’t Back Down” (reviewed here, and not kindly, by Salon’s own Andrew O’Hehir), is that Walden Media is itself an educational content company with a commercial interest in expanding private-sector access to American K-12 education, or what Rupert Murdoch, Walden’s distribution partner on “Won’t Back Down,” lip-lickingly calls “a $50 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed.”
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/27/the_corporate_education_agenda_behind_wont_back_down/
Lee Camp's take:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TqnchgOucE[/youtube]
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: oilgun on October 03, 2012, 11:55:14 pm ---Maggie Gyllenhaal, how could you?!!
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I've wondered the same thing.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 05, 2012, 09:46:19 am ---I've wondered the same thing.
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She's got two kids. Maybe she needs the money.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 05, 2012, 10:47:03 am ---She's got two kids. Maybe she needs the money.
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Depends on your definition of "needs." She and her husband make in the millions when they work. She comes from an affluent family.
I have two kids, no husband and work part time at a newspaper. Would I do anything that would increase my income, regardless of how morally questionable? No.
I guess we all have our price, but I'd be surprised if she were financially desperate. I tend to suspect she just didn't think the politics through, or care about them as much as we would have thought.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 05, 2012, 04:26:14 pm ---Depends on your definition of "needs." She and her husband make in the millions when they work. She comes from an affluent family.
I have two kids, no husband and work part time at a newspaper. Would I do anything that would increase my income, regardless of how morally questionable? No.
I guess we all have our price, but I'd be surprised if she were financially desperate. I tend to suspect she just didn't think the politics through, or care about them as much as we would have thought.
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Well, "when they work" is the key phrase there, I think.
Maybe she just thought it was a good part.
Accusing her of immorality for taking a role in this movie seems a bit harsh, don't you think?
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