We were garishly described as an institution that "Celebrated heavy drinking," "a troubled, morally questionable symbol of a snobby elite [where] alcohol was an integral part of the school's identity," and a place where "Disregard or mistreatment of women [was] widely accepted." A "Debauched ... scene of cloistered young men." And those are just a few such insults from the more than 60 articles that appeared about Prep in the Washington Post alone.
Despite the fact that I informed her, in writing, a mere eight minutes after she contacted me that the job had posted in July and had nothing to do with the present media frenzy, the Post printed her story falsely claiming the search came as a result of the very controversy that paper so breathlessly stoked.
Instead of presenting a three-dimensional view of culture at Georgetown Prep and the type of young men it produces, reporters took up amateur cryptology, attempting decode the obscure meanings of yearbook citations from 35 years in the past.
We were in contact with a reporter for a national newspaper, working on a long-form story about Prep in the 1980s.
Nobody at Georgetown Prep expects special pity in light of these experiences.
In 1981, the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for a story that its reporter had entirely fabricated.
Anyone hoping for a nuanced and even-handed look at the true mission and track record of Georgetown Prep would have found few examples in the mainstream press.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/georgetown-prep-kavanaugh-confirmation-media-circus-damage/
Despite the fact that I informed her, in writing, a mere eight minutes after she contacted me that the job had posted in July and had nothing to do with the present media frenzy, the Post printed her story falsely claiming the search came as a result of the very controversy that paper so breathlessly stoked.
Instead of presenting a three-dimensional view of culture at Georgetown Prep and the type of young men it produces, reporters took up amateur cryptology, attempting decode the obscure meanings of yearbook citations from 35 years in the past.
We were in contact with a reporter for a national newspaper, working on a long-form story about Prep in the 1980s.
Nobody at Georgetown Prep expects special pity in light of these experiences.
In 1981, the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for a story that its reporter had entirely fabricated.
Anyone hoping for a nuanced and even-handed look at the true mission and track record of Georgetown Prep would have found few examples in the mainstream press.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/georgetown-prep-kavanaugh-confirmation-media-circus-damage/
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