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Credit is due to FReeper maggief for coining the term "WaPoGate." It works.

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[Kansas58]

How about we get someone in Congress to propose a TAX!

A TAX on NEWSPRINT!

Whereas the production of newspapers causes trees to be cut down, hauled by polluting trucks to polluting paper mills, and hauled from paper mills to publishers and

Whereas the production of newspapers requires toxic ink and solvents and energy wasting machinery and

Whereas the distribution of newspapers requires the use of dirty internal combustion engines and

Whereas a large portion of every landfill is used for discarded newspapers,

Therefore:

Be it resolved that a Newsprint tax, of $1,000.00 per pound, be charged to EVERY newspaper with a daily subscription, within the United States!
________________________________________
We should get some Republican to propose THIS as an amendment to any “cap and trade” or “carbon tax” proposal that comes up!
Maybe we can make it like “Cap and Trade” and use the revenue generated, from this tax on dirty dinosaur newspapers, to subsidize a tax credit for home computers and digital devices?
Or, we could use the money to subsidize talk radio! Well, those guys really don’t need any help!

[spald]

This is like Hitler formally asking Hans Frank, the Governor of occupied Poland, whether it’s OK to start gassing Jews.

[Carley]

ComPooGate

[Zakeet]

Katharine Weymouth informed staff ... that general counsel Eric Lieberman will "review recent events to make sure that our business processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our journalism."

This is hogwash.

Katharine Bouchage Weymouth is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Law School. As such, it is logical to assume she knew exactly what she was doing when she planned her money for access party.

Katharine is also Katharine Graham's granddaughter (and namesake). Her family owns the ComPost. As such, like Pinch Sultzberger at the NY Times, she will not face any disciplinary proceedings for her actions.

Finally, the term "compromise our journalism" is meaningless since it presumes there is something of value and some applicable standards of excellence which can, in fact, be compromised.

As a result, I read her whole statement as, "I'm sorry I got caught. Next time, I'll be more careful. But I will never, ever, relinquish the power of my news rag to influence government to adopt my liberal agenda."

[tobyhill]

I just want to know which Officials in Obama’s White House had agreed to attend.

[Jackson57]

I’m sure this “internal review” will return with findings that there was no wrong doing. Much like the Obama campaign reviewing it’s own fundraising activities ... “we did nothing wrong ... “.

[StAnDeliver]

Katherine -- you're still a Media Whore.

[Malesherbes]

Oh darn! I had so looked forward to buying access to the WaPo.

[Billthedrill]

I confess I haven't the slightest idea of what basis Weymouth could possibly deny what was clearly being advertised. Access to these salons - there were to be eleven of them - was package-priced at $250,000, for which a "sponsor" could send two participants. Individual salons were to be priced at $25,000 (buy 10, get one free!). What that money purchased was a sit-down with influential policy-makers and journalists, if there is a distinction.

How that could be considered anything other than selling access to power absolutely baffles me. It is certainly a presence beyond the means of ordinary citizens. Weymouth's impassioned insistence that it isn't what it looks like is simply not the case - it is what it looks like.

What is most curious about the affair is her equally impassioned insistence that this, or something like it, is common practice in other organizations similar to hers. I'd love to know just how extensive that is. Perhaps an enterprising journalist might find that a proper subject for investigative journalism. It might be Pulitzer material, but he or she could count on never attending one of these affairs again themselves. That may be why no one has.

[Liberty Valance]

Pay for play is what your advertising dept. rate card is for Mrs. Weymouth. NOT your newsroom!

[RJL]

Weymouth: WaPo launches internal review

I'm sure that they are leaving no stone unturned in an effort to find and punish those who let out the truth about their little soirees for the hard lefties.

[SunkenCiv]

Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth informed staff this afternoon, in a memo obtained by POLITICO, that general counsel Eric Lieberman will "review recent events to make sure that our business processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our journalism." Weymouth also said that executive editor Marcus Brauchli and senior editor Milton Coleman will "codify parameters for Post newsroom participation in live events."

"Oops! What I meant to say was, 'make sure that our journalism processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our shilling for Obama, the Democratic Party, and more generally the left, particularly the foreign left.'"

[SeattleBruce]

It's hilarious - almost every single post on Politico is anti-WaPo - oh, it's fun to watch the sick ol’ liberals squirm around...as they die and ignominious death..

[cranked]

“internal review”?

What a pathetic attempt at a joke....

[Loyal Buckeye]

I’m sure some Freepers would do the review at no cost to the compost and the report would be fair and square.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I wanted to let you know that I’ve asked Eric Lieberman, our General Counsel, to review recent events to make sure that our business processes are consistent with, and will not in any way compromise, our journalism.

What compromises their journalism is blatant liberal bias. Business practices are merely ancillary to the cancer that infects their reportage.

[Raycpa]

$3,050 was given by people who identified their last name as “Lieberman” and first name as “Eric”.
$0 to Republicans
$3,050 from 2 people to Democrats
Donor
Contribution
Address
Eric Lieberman
Donation of $1,200 to Presidential elections 2008
Democrat
Eric Lieberman
Musician
Self employed
Updated
Q3/2008
Barack Obama
$1,200
6139 CHARAE ST
San Diego CA
Eric Lieberman
Donation of $750 to Presidential elections 2008
Democrat
Eric Lieberman
Attorney
RBSKL
Updated
Q3/2008
Barack Obama
$750
280 RIVERSIDE DR
New York NY
Eric Lieberman
Donation of $600 to Presidential elections 2008
Democrat
Eric Lieberman
Attorney
Self employed
Updated
Q2/2008
Barack Obama
$600
2068 W FARWELL AVE
Chicago IL
Erica Lieberman
Donation of $500 to Presidential elections 2004
Democrat
Erica Lieberman
Advertising
Digitas
Updated
Q1/2004
John Kerry
$500
10 WILLARD ST
Waltham MA

[Raycpa]

ERIC LIEBERMAN Vice President and General Counsel, Washington Post Eric Lieberman is the General Counsel for The Washington Post. He has worked for The Post since 1998. In addition to reviewing Post articles prior to publication, Lieberman has focused on helping journalists gain access to public records. He also makes sure that Post reporters maintained the promises of confidentiality made to their sources and avoided a confrontation with the federal courts and the special prosecutor. He works with other media organizations to press Congress for a “shield law” that would provide reporters with a qualified right not to identify confidential sources in federal court proceedings. Before joining The Post, Lieberman was an associate at Williams & Connolly where he represented clients in both civil and criminal matters. He graduated from Harvard College and Duke Law School, where he was the Administrative Editor of Law & Contemporary Problems. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge James L. Oakes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Lieberman has also served on the boards of the of the Maryland‐Delaware‐District of Columbia Press Association, the Virginia Press Association, the Council for Court Excellence, the D.C. Legal Aid Society and the Court‐Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program of Montgomery County, http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/EricLiebermanBio.pdf

[pabianice]

Turd, meet Polishing Rag. (Good luck!)