@nanners:
Keep it on topic. This isn't really about the fact that American news agencies are in the entertainment business, not the education business.
It's about 1 puff piece that you took seriously.

There's nothing in that puff piece that I find remotely believable, and I find it odd that someone whom is already opposed to CNN as a biased source suddenly treating a CNN puff piece like it's foretelling the future.

All I'm saying is maybe lay off the coffee, 'cause this is not going to amount to anything.


As for the side-track:
There's tons of corruption in this world. I do not have the social faculties to do anything about that. I'm simply terrible at trying to navigate large groups of people. I lack any ability to see into a deep social morass and find anything to latch onto which could help direct people toward being less fucking led by the nose. I'm not the one to help, here.

If playing with toys and showing physical phenomena to people will help them fight corruption, then I'm your guy. Otherwise, I'll let other people whom are good at that stuff do what they're good at.
I'll keep doing what I'm good at.
and the world will get along.

Just because I see why corruption exists doesn't mean I'm in favor of it. Just because I lack the skills to combat corruption doesn't mean I want people to be fucked over by the corrupt. All I can do, personally, is to try to keep myself aware of corruption and bias and to be vigilant against being manipulated by people whom don't have my best interests in mind.

As for me as an educator: I don't ever make an appeal to authority, since my position is to literally put something in front of a skeptical student and show them what's happening. I give them observations and I tell them what the current understanding in physics has to say about predicting the outcome of an experiment. I challenge them to find another solution which makes the same predictions, but which is simpler or which calls on different parameters to make that prediction. I am not a lecturer. My role is to literally put science in their lives, and avoid appeal to the authority of the textbook's author or their lecturer.