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A Sponsorship Scandal at The (Washington) Post (Dinosaur Media DeathWatchâ„¢)
The Washington Post ^ | July 12, 2009 | Marcus Alexander

Posted on 07/11/2009 1:56:30 PM PDT by abb

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To: abb

Who were these lawmakers, administration officials, think tank experts, business leaders and heads of associations? What was their cut going to be?

Sounds like an influence prostitution ring to me, with WaPo as the pimp.


21 posted on 07/11/2009 3:33:50 PM PDT by ptgustan (Marxist thought stinks on ice.)
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To: Zakeet
Does journalism really have a code of ethics? Or is this more made-up bullcrap from a craft pretending to be a profession?

In the article he refers to a Style-book - ( "rule book") Within that is a code of ethics - an ethical system newspapers might want to standardized across the industry. And they need to explain to their readers - and in the case of the Washington Post - their owners.

Okrent was the master of this - and the New York Times let him go... Maybe the Washington Post should offer him a job. (their loss)

22 posted on 07/11/2009 3:38:58 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Obama Administration: Soft & Sweet with Enemies. Tough & Unfair with Friends.)
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To: Zakeet
Does journalism really have a code of ethics? Or is this more made-up bullcrap from a craft pretending to be a profession?

In the article he refers to a Style-book - ( "rule book") Within that is a code of ethics - an ethical system newspapers might want to standardized across the industry. And they need to explain those ethics to their readers - and in the case of the Washington Post - the owners.

Okrent was the master of this - and the New York Times let him go... Maybe the Washington Post should offer him a job. (their loss)

23 posted on 07/11/2009 3:39:50 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Obama Administration: Soft & Sweet with Enemies. Tough & Unfair with Friends.)
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To: bareford101
"this is ordinary Chicago politics"

I don't think this was ever confined to Chicago. See the slurs and Calumny hurled at Washington, Adams, Jefferson, J Q Adams, Jackson, Lincoln, Garfield, etc, etc, etc.

24 posted on 07/11/2009 3:43:17 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: All
Who is Katharine Weymouth?


25 posted on 07/11/2009 4:08:40 PM PDT by ElPatriota (The SILENCE of the Catholic Church on the war on family-values is *** DEAFENING ***)
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To: abb

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/11/AR2009071101822.html
Big media seek 21st century business models


26 posted on 07/11/2009 5:42:50 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Right, I see...so Nancy Ann Min De Parle, White House Czarina of Health, had absolutely nothing to do with Kaiser Permanente “underwriting” the dinners...


27 posted on 07/11/2009 8:25:20 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: browniexyz

That line came from this interview. The State-Run Media loves to throw it out from time to time. Quite fitting, don’t you think?

http://www.landmarkcases.org/nixon/nixonview.html

United States v. Nixon (1974)

Nixon’s Views on Presidential Power:
Excerpts from an Interview with David Frost

The following is an excerpt from an interview with former President Nixon conducted by David Frost. It aired on television on May 19, 1977.

FROST: “So what in a sense, you’re saying is that there are certain situations, and the Huston Plan or that part of it was one of them, where the president can decide that it’s in the best interests of the nation or something, and do something illegal.”

NIXON: “Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.”

FROST: “By definition.”

NIXON: “Exactly. Exactly. If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president’s decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law. Otherwise they’re in an impossible position.”


28 posted on 07/12/2009 1:34:22 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: 353FMG

I suspect it is very similar to how Janet Reno took full responsibility for Waco . . .


29 posted on 07/12/2009 2:14:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: 353FMG
“Publisher Katharine Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli have now taken full responsibility...”

for finding a way to shove this all under the carpet.

30 posted on 07/12/2009 6:20:46 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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