Sentences with phrase «hatchet job»

I'm talking about Michael Winerip who, to the best of my knowledge, is the single worst education reporter in America, infamous for biased hatchet jobs on NCLB, Bloomberg and Klein's reforms, and anything else associated with genuine reform (if anyone is aware of someone worse at a major publication, please let me know — maybe I'll start a Reporter Hall of Shame...)

Our protest was based on his track record of doing hatchet jobs in such auspicious gatherings.

Also, if a principal doesn't like a teacher and does hatchet jobs in observations, it appears to me that huge test score gains will not save the teacher.

This paper confirms the experimental work of Dayton Miller,... subjected to a rather inept hatchet job by his former assistant Robert Shankland... Shankland was rewarded for this infamy with a string of audiences with Einstein, and a well paid job as a pen pusher in the nuclear industry.

While awards season keeps the previous year's prestige films lingering in January like a hangover, Sundance arrives like a magic tonic every year to provide an occasion for optimism amidst a sea of hatchet jobs against worthy films.

Unfortunately, the NYSP has a long history of doing political hatchet jobs for the puppet - masters in the governor's mansion.

Apart from the loud cry from majority of the common people about the increasing rate of police extortions on road blocks especially in the South East of Nigeria and the worsening cases of police brutality and extra-legal killings, the expanding frontiers of the involvement of officers of the Nigeria police in partisan politics and their availability for hatchet jobs against political opponents of the president and persons with independent opinion have become very disturbing.

Others have done a better job with the Hatchette hatchet job attempt on Amazon (and damn, unless they're aiming for authors and readers they're really doing a shitty job of it).

Just over a year ago, not long after Brendan Rodgers was sacked, the Daily Mail published an article hatchet job depicting Liverpool FC's head of performance analysis Michael Edwards as a kiss - arse who basically set Rodgers up to fail.

Others have done a better job with the Hatchette hatchet job attempt on Amazon (and damn, unless they» re

Since some girl in Washington can be brave enough to launch a draw mohammed day but this clown cant do anything but the millionth hatchet job on Christianity, why should anyone listen to this hack but those who have hate for christianity already.

Carl E. Olson's sarcastic hatchet job on premillennial dispensationalism implies that John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brethren invented futurism and the idea of the imminent return of Christ.

I'll believe it when I see it but surely someone as fair - minded as Sunder Katwala wouldn't get involved in a partisan hatchet job?

At this juncture, it is important to address Olatunbosun's hatchet job issue by issue.

While MPs increasingly prefer staycations in Cornwall and in the Lake District, political journalists - after writing obligatory hatchet jobs about MPs» long recesses - still disappear to Europe's beaches.

Don't blither about ethics when it's clear this was only a political hatchet job with a VERY specific target.

«It is funny that the EFCC, in the bid to carry out its usual hatchet job against Governor Fayose, failed to take into cognisance the subsisting court order, which forbids any official of the Ekiti State government from being arrested by the EFCC.

I do recall that the chapter on Peking Man was a particularly sleazy hatchet job, rivalling Gish at his worst.

Same old predictable, thoughtless hatchet job against saturated fat via misguided preoccupation with nuance - free readings of cholesterol markers.

Compared to two of the most famous hatchet jobs in cinema history — the «short» versions of Heaven's Gate and Once Upon a Time in America — you could even argue that Schrader has gotten off easy, with no major alterations to his narrative structure or the running time.

I must say that this isn't a full - scale hatchet job, à la 300.

Surely the most thorough hatchet job ever recorded.

Do you believe this story or does it reek of a fanboy hatchet job?

I would suspect that this narrative focus — in itself — would have the Yahoo! News crowd crying foul that the film is a left - wing hatchet job that seeks to turn Oscar Grant into a Jesus Christ figure.

This same NYT reporter, Kate Zernike, committed a similar hatchet job on Paul Peterson's voucher research back in 2000.

First, the article reads like a clever hatchet job on indie authors.

Still, we can appreciate a good hatchet job as much as the rest of you, especially one that describes a book with terms like «bizarre,» «hifaultin,» «moany» and «crazed.»

A slew of posts have hit the blogsphere following more of the anti-Amazon campaign coming out of the NY traditional media (which reached orgiastic levels this weekend with a Patterson ad and a NYT hatchet job), and volleyed by Amazon calling on indie authors to email Hachette's CEO in an emailed missive I first suspected might be a practical joke.

I looked for evidence of a track record, but found only the BusinessWeek hatchet job from a few years back:

If promises to fix the game are met and it, eventually, becomes a more faithful entry to the classic series, the Birdman's last outing will still go down in history as an absolute hatchet job.

I said it would just be a BBC hatchet job but my wife insisted.

Also, the time that the Economics Committee allowed between their Call for Evidence and the just - issued report was only six months, which from what I can tell makes it a bit of a hurry - up hatchet job.

It seemed beyond Jones» genius to notice that at least two of the few programmes he could find which seemingly gave a voice to «deniers» — Meet the Climate Sceptics, and Paul Nurse's Horizon episode — were polemic hatchet jobs.

Or is it better, as social media does its gruesome hatchet job, to recognize the apparent hopelessness of the situation, no matter what the facts are, to accept defeat and slink away in silence, as so many of those who are accused seem to do even if the allegations don't seem particularly credible?

«It is worth reminding yourself that a heroic attempt to find a defensible interpretation of an author, if it comes up empty, can be even more devastating than an angry hatchet job,» Dennett writes.

This question is tackled side - on in a review of Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics, a novel on film criticism by British film critic Mark Kermode.

UPDATE: Cunningham responded by calling this a «political hatchet job,» accusing VOCAL and Community Voices Heard of being «afraid to go after the governor directly, so they go after the committee.»

is when he's doing hatchet jobs against KU.

It would be just as intellectually honest as CNN's hatchet job on Fox, but they won't do it.

Kelly adds that, in his experience, «most employees don't want to do a hatchet job on their employers,» rather they want to see their problems solved to everyone's benefit.

The Globe and Mail's Neil Reynolds does a hatchet job on Sweden.

Another hatchet job by CNN on Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular.