Another DC-related rebuttal: Mike Petrilli of Bill Turque, who was well-known for his hatchet jobs on Michelle Rhee:

Bill Turque covers DC public schools for the Washington Post. The paper has other education reporters–Nick Anderson, Dan Devise, Jay Mathews–but Turque is the beat reporter whose stories serve the "newspaper of record" function for daily reporting on the city schools. Unfortunately, he's not always objective and he makes mistakes. An egregious example of both was published this morning, under the headline "Has D.C. reform hit pothole or wall?":

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Bill Turque's Naivety

by Kevin Carey on April 3, 2011

www.quickanded.com/2011/04/bill-turques-naivety.html