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Post shoots self in ethical foot (Marketing ploy backfires on Post)
Washington Times ^
| July 3, 2009
| Jennifer Harper
Posted on 07/03/2009 8:12:17 AM PDT by La Lydia
A marketing scheme backfired on The Washington Post on Thursday, forcing the newspaper into uncharacteristic mea culpa mode. A headline in The Post itself tells all: "The Post's 'Salon' Plan: A Public Relations Disaster."
In an age of excruciating transparency, revelations that the newspaper planned to pair up political insiders, business leaders, Obama administration officials and Post reporters for cozy, off-the-record "salons" at the home of publisher Katharine Weymouth generated immediate, corrosive buzz -- and lots of reaction.
A color publicity flier obtained by Politico revealed that The Post would charge up to $250,000 for these "collegial" encounters, billed as "extensions of The Washington Post brand of journalistic inquiry into the issues."
The pile-on began. Immediate coverage from news organizations and bloggers took its toll. Within hours, The Post announced that the "policy dinners" were canceled, forcing the newspaper's brass into the spotlight to explain the bungle...
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: honesty; neutrality; objectivity
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The publisher, the editor, the ombudsman all are backtracking and covering their collective butts as fast as they can. But someone has really bad judgment, and THEY GOT CAUGHT.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:12:18 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
They still think they were right to do this, the only reason why they’re not is because it’s become a “A Public Relations Disaster.”
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:13:28 AM PDT
by
Boiling Pots
(B. Hussein Obama: The final turd George W. Bush laid on America)
To: La Lydia
The Washington Post HAS no ethical feet.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:15:12 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
To: La Lydia
But someone has really bad judgment...Sorry, I don't buy that.
This is today's media on display for all to see in its naked truth.....allied with liberals to control the news.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:17:08 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: TommyDale
the Devil’s Advocates all
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:17:35 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
(the University of IKEA , educating our kids for 20 years , majoring in couch and remote)
To: La Lydia
and I wonder if Obama played a role - could the Post and Obama Administration be co-conspirators?
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:18:54 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: La Lydia
The ‘floated’ ballon did not work. They will now regroup, clean it up a bit, and come back with a plan that will work.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:19:04 AM PDT
by
devane617
(Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
To: La Lydia
I know someone who works for the Washington Post. They openly and freely admit that its a biased, left wing paper.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:19:27 AM PDT
by
Starboard
To: elpadre
and I wonder if Obama played a role - could the Post and Obama Administration be co-conspirators? What would be surprising is if they weren't!
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:20:58 AM PDT
by
Starboard
To: La Lydia
"This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren't vetted. They didn't represent at all what we were attempting to do. We're not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom"Now that's funny.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:21:34 AM PDT
by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
To: elpadre
They were offering access to BO administration officials in exchange for money. You do the math.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:22:32 AM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
"This could be the opportunity we've been waiting for to appoint that 'Media Czar' and take over the news organizations!"
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:26:07 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.)
To: La Lydia
They were offering access to BO administration officials in exchange for money. You do the math.
This is without a doubt the most corrupt government, both R and D , ever in our 230 plus years.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:27:32 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: La Lydia
Katey got her t!t caught in a ringer on this caper. Her grandmother must be embarrassed.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:37:54 AM PDT
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
To: La Lydia
Things like this happen all the time. Sometimes the paper gets paid and sometime it doesnt
Until the D&DMSM (dead and dieing MSM) clearly identify, immediately below the title in regular size font, what parts of their paper have been paid for and by whom there is no reason to think they are telling the truth about anything anywhere. This includes the editorial and opnion pages. They are wondering why no one is buying their product?
Things like this happen all the time. Sometimes the paper gets paid and sometime it doesnt
Enough said!
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:38:16 AM PDT
by
Nip
(Islam - a religion of piece (your head and life). Truth depends on the spelling)
To: La Lydia
They were offering access to BO administration officials in exchange for money. You do the math.
Pay. To. Play.
To: La Lydia
Note that this cough-up-your-coffee bad idea was the best thing they could come up with, had many many meetings over, pondered every phrase, every paragraph break, every comma repeatedly, and put forward as their money maker.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:40:51 AM PDT
by
jiggyboy
(Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Don Corleone
The Madam was just setting the price!
To: Starboard
“I know someone who works for the Washington Post. They openly and freely admit that its a biased, left wing paper.”
Stop the presses. OOPS! My mistake. No news here.
To: La Lydia
no calculus needed - just arithmetic.
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posted on
07/03/2009 8:45:36 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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