Are major national newspapers pushing JROTC, military high schools on Chicago model?
George N. Schmidt – January 01, 2000 [Editor/reporter’s note: The following piece was first posted on December 31, 2010 at substancenews.net and has been expanded for this posting. Happy New Year. George N. Schmidt, Editor, Substance]. If a reader wants to know the editorial opinion of today’s “news” papers, the best place to learn is by carefully tracing the “news” that appears on Page One and the biases inherent in the news selection itself. It became obvious by the end of 2009 that at least two of America’s major newspapers had decided that Junior ROTC was a very good thing. Both the Chicago Tribune and The New York Times ran articles praising Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps programs during the final days of 2009. While Chicago’s vast expansion of militarism in the city’s public schools during the first decade of the 21st Century is not explicitly on the agenda of former Chicago CEO and current U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, it reads like the ground is being prepared
