PWN3D.
Posted on 09/11/2009 1:36:25 PM PDT by abb
The marketing executive at the center of a controversial series of Washington Post-sponsored dinner "salons" has resigned from the newspaper some 10 weeks after the events were canceled, The Post said Friday.
Charles Pelton, who had helped organize and promote the monthly dinners as The Post's newly hired general manager of events and conferences, made no mention of the controversy in his resignation letter to Post President Stephen P. Hills. Instead, Pelton wrote, "Given the current circumstances with regard to the resources needed to launch [an events business], my family and I have decided not to relocate to Washington, D.C.," from California.
Pelton was not immediately available for further comment.
The dinners Pelton was organizing were advertised to involve Post journalists, Obama administration and congressional officials and industry executives in a series of sponsored, off-the-record conversations about public policy issues. The dinners were to be held at the home of Post publisher Katharine Weymouth.
The newspaper canceled the events in early July, before any were held. The controversy erupted after the disclosure of a promotional brochure that sought sponsors willing to pay $25,000 for each dinner, or $250,000 for all 11 events in the planned series. Critics said the concept crossed ethical lines, creating the perception that sponsors would gain special access to Post journalists.
Before joining The Post Co. just four months ago, Pelton, a former journalist who worked at Time magazine and InformationWeek, had co-owned Modern Media, a California-based firm that organizes conferences.
In his resignation letter, Pelton said he looked forward to continuing to work as a consultant for the newspaper.
In a letter to Pelton, Hills wrote, "We are grateful for the work you did to help us launch our conference business, which we believe is an important and appropriate extension of our brand."
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/CNN_unapologetic_after_Coast_Guard_report.html
CNN unapologetic after Coast Guard report
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6614073.html
River drill shakes up DC on 9/11 anniversary
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/10/wolff200910
Post Modern
Once the richest, and perhaps the happiest, newspaper in America, The Washington Post faces the same grim odds as the rest of the industry. But unlike The New York Times’s Sulzberger family, the Post’s Grahams have time, popularity, and—most important—pragmatism on their side.
Oh so she resigns but the woman who was actually hosting these events is still running the show trading influence for bucks whilr pretending to run a journalistic organization
Yes. Her Uncle Donald Graham is CEO of the Washington Post parent company.
Check out the Vanity Fair story. Isn’t very flattering of her.
Katharine Weymouth needs the axe for this.
I’m not buying any attempts to throw her responsibility off.
Now, now. You just know she was MeeMaw Katherine Graham’s favorite granddaughter, since she was name for her.
They’ll burn the place down before they dump Weymouth overboard.
Oh.
Well if they burn the place down I am okay with them keeping Katherine. As long as they let the insurance lapse first.
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=169925
What We Can Learn From CNN’s Erroneous Reporting on Coast Guard Drill
He can become a Czar for 0b0z0.
what can be learned?
CNN was caught up in a scoop. Getting there first and loudest counts coup. Journalists don’t kill each other.....counting coup is the cultural war practice
Failure will be forgotten
Then there is the matter of who actually saw it? More are learning from the Fox reportage than actually saw it.
Recall the lecture last Sunday morning from Tom Brokaw about how “citizen journalists” are ruining the profession.
ROFLMAO!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/11/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5304154.shtml
CNN Defends Reporting Coast Guard Story
PWN3D.
That's one gutsy newsroom.
Sheesh, that took long enough. Has he been named a czar yet?
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