A Letter to Our Readers (WaPo's Weymouth: "dog ate homework" - Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)

The Washington Post ^ | July 5, 2009 | Katherine Weymouth

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[Liz]

I want to apologize for a venture that went off track, and I am announcing a brand new money-maker:

For $25,000, we at the Wash/Po will let you watch several muscle-bound construction workers manhandle Rahm Emanuel.

"O-o-o-o-o, I can't wait.

[timestax]

lol bttt

[GOPJ]

For $25,000, we at the Wash/Po will let you watch several muscle-bound construction workers manhandle Rahm Emanuel.

Will have be before for after the soiree at the Publisher's mansion?

[Billthedrill]

Eleven salons planned at $250,000 per "sponsor" for the package, two participants per "sponsor." Four such "sponsors" would have brought in a cool million dollars. Dozens of them, well, the math isn't difficult. That's what was involved here.

The notion that the Post was doing anything other than selling access to political figures is simply false. Such events, in the words of the flyer, "make the news." While corrupt enough, that isn't the issue - the issue is whether such events make the policy as well.

That would, of course, be highly unethical and quite illegal, but it wouldn't be the Post's problem. And it would certainly help ticket sales, wouldn't it? And if the journalists there wanted to keep their own access to this club they'd better be discreet about what they print about it. Hadn't they?

[Liz]

ASAP-—Rahm can’t wait.....LOL.