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Only because they got caught!

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Sen. Bob Graham remembers Katharine Graham (his sister-in-law)

17-JUL-01

Sen. Bob Graham on Tuesday remembered his sister-in-law Katharine Graham with awe _ for her strength as a journalism icon as publisher of The Washington Post and her role as a loving family member.

“Her passion for The Post, her strength as a leader and her commitment to the highest standards of journalism, helped build her newspaper into her ideal,” Graham said. “Many of the ideas that shaped the last 40 or 50 years in this nation were born, then argued over, deconstructed and reconstructed around her dining table.

[GOPJ]

Weymouth's letter said the paper was planning dinners but including "firm parameters" that gave sponsors no control over content and no special access to its journalists. Reporters wouldn't be restricted from asking questions, she said.

"If the events were to be sponsored by other companies, everything would be at arm's length," she said in the letter.

The Washington Post deserves a better Publisher - she has shamed the entire industry.

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If it hasn't already been mentioned, I'd DEFINITELY wonder why the question isn't being asked more openly about just HOW MUCH CONTROL the Media has over these politicos and their lackeys.

Just exactly HOW did the Post think that it could even arrange this to begin with? Just exactly HOW did they get this kind of control over politicians and gov officials?

THOSE are the questions people should be asking. How the powerful became MEDIA WHORES! And how the media became POWER PIMPS!