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WaPo's New Business Model: Selling Access
The Commonwealth Conservative ^ | 7/2/2009 | C. E. van Avery

Posted on 07/02/2009 5:18:21 PM PDT by SolitarySaint

Politico blew the whistle this morning on a money for access scheme set up by none other than the Washington Post:

Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

WaPo hastily cancelled the event and the "journalists" at the paper even more hastily denied any involvement. If there was ever a story that showed how blurred the lines between media and government have become, this is it.

Come to think of it, these days what else is a newspaper to do to keep the money flowing in?

(Excerpt) Read more at com-con.us ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: media

1 posted on 07/02/2009 5:18:21 PM PDT by SolitarySaint
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To: SolitarySaint
I'm sure not cancelling my event. For a mere $50,000 you get to meet me at the door in the morning and follow me around all day ~ maybe even be let in on a few secrets about how I stick together my sparkling posts on Free Republic.

Oh, yeah!

Just send money.

2 posted on 07/02/2009 5:23:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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