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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He made a fool of himself with his tweets.

ACPS and the Board don't answer questions from anyone. Reporters aren't special.  Hutchings dictated it months ago and the Board is happily following his directions. [/quote]

Why isn’t a good thing that ACPS’s lack of transparency is highlighted?[/quote]

Too little, too late.

It's like when PTAC suddenly turned against Hutchings in the days leading up to his resignation. Or if they suddenly called out the Alexandria establishment for covering up the Minnie Howard rape. [/quote]

Ok.  But, as an individual journalist, Pope really has no responsibility to take a stand against ACPS.  PTAC did not have responsibilities to represent the interests of parents and students of ACPS and failed completely.

What if the Washington Post editorial page started tomorrow highlighting ACPS problems and the need to change direction.  Wouldn’t that be a good thing even it hasn’t focused on ACPS in the past?
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You're right, Pope doesn't have a responsibility to "take a stand against ACPS".  Reporters shouldn't take stands.

But Pope failed at his job (which according to a PP listing his body of work [i]is[/i] reporting on ACPS) when he failed to cover the rape and all the other ACPS scandals revealing the lack of  transparency (like when Hutchings and Wilson claimed they had nothing to do with the idea of putting adult housing at schools but are on camera at the Alexandria Housing summit strongly supporting the idea just a month before the adult housing news broke).

That's why his outrage is so phony and laughable. [/quote]

I agree with all your criticisms of ACPS.

I just think if a journalist is willing to start covering all of ACPS problems (or return to the ACPS beat), it is more productive to encourage the journalist to continue to do so rather than bash the journalist for being late to the party.[/quote]

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