A fascinating Education Week profile features Mike Antonucci, author of the Education Intelligence Agency's invaluable weekly Communique on doings within the teacher unions (http://members.aol.com/educationintel/communique.htm). Antonucci has become the Matt Drudge of the education world the old-fashioned way, by getting scoops no one else has. (He was way ahead of the pack, for example, on the biggest union story in years, the embezzlement scandal at the Miami-Dade AFT affiliate). Some of the union members asked to comment on Antonucci's enterprise are predictably disdainful - but the rest of the education world relies on it for timely and (usually) accurate information about organizations that make up in self-interest what they lack in transparency.
"SNOOP!" by Bess Keller, Education Week, September 24, 2003