Blupfisk,
I think you are forgetting that though there are some unqualified teachers, this doesn't make the article legitimate.
"Spin" "propaganda" and plain old BS are about presentation, framing issues, appealing to prejudices, limiting debate to 2 sides (or worse-no debate at all), ignoring other perspectives, injecting urgency where there is nothing new, and/or tying unrelated facts together.
Certainly, articles may be constrained by space, or other problems, but even a cursory look shows many shaky assertions and implications within the article.
Combined with the timing of said piece, I think you can be pretty sure that it is part of the anti-weiguoren trend of the moment. It seems worth adding that there will never be such an article highlighting an equally shocking scandal in Kunming. Namely, seriously qualified teachers (Uni degrees in ESL for example) making 100 an hour, and it is not like the are getting many hours either. This, while my Chinese friends who haven't even finished Uni yet are making 120/hour teaching English at training schools.