Subscript: CTU attorney gets AFT press credentials after AFT tried to deny credentials to Substance staff
…With all the reporters losing their jobs, you’ve got to wonder why a $100,000-a-year (and up) lawyer — Graham Hill — would want to play Jimmy Olson at the AFT convention. Considering all the other noisome realities coming out of the Poltrock law firm, what’s a little unethical posing as press among AFT friends? Posing as press? Yes. Several Substance staff observed Graham Hill, an attorney who works with Lawrence and Jennifer Poltrock, carrying press credentials during the American Federation of Teachers convention. Hill is not a report, and when contacted by Substance refused to discuss how he came to be a “reporter” for part of the convention. Compared to some of the things the Poltrocks have done, sending Mr. Hill to pose as a reporter is a venial sin, not a mortal one. But the fact is, when the American Federation of Teachers claims, on the one hand, that Substance is not a “legitimate news organization,” and on the other hand, that a lawyer known to AFT’s chief attorney is also a reporter, it’s both the AFT’s ethics and Mr. Hill’s that are (again) in question. Graham Hill, Reporter, is not the way Mr. Hill is identified in Sullivan’s, or when the receptionist at the Poltrock firm answer the phone…
