Posted on 09/12/2009 6:19:16 AM PDT by SolidWood
The marketing executive at the center of The Washington Post’s discredited plan to charge power-brokers for private dinners with the paper’s publisher and journalists has resigned from The Post, the paper disclosed on Friday.
The Post had sent fliers to lobbyists and trade groups, inviting them to pay $25,000 or more to sponsor salons at the home of Katharine Weymouth, the publisher — off-the-record dinners with reporters, editors and government officials. The plan became public in July, drawing sharp criticism from journalists in and out of the paper, and The Post quickly dropped it.
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A Faux Pas? Why did they say something wrong? (sarc off)
A “faux pas” is a social blunder or an etiquette mistake. This was not a faux pas. This is a lot more serious than using the wrong fork.
Weymouth wasn’t going to step down.
She’s Kay Graham’s kid.
Grandkid.
Pardon me.
Of course he should resign.
How dare he make the machinations of cronyism within the politburo known to the public. He is not a man who can be trusted with producing propaganda.
His replacement will understand Mayor Daly’s (the original) strategies far better, I’m sure.
When a dinosaur sees another one go into the tar pits, it just shakes its head and says “poor Bob — he was a good guy.”
“We commited a Faux... Pas” ...Washington Post twiddles tie, a-la Oliver Hardy
Give ‘em a break. It’s the NYT. You know: Orwell’s paper of choice.
“Dear Public”,
“We’re sorry we got caught”
Washington Post
Is the Post taking resumes to fill the spot?
I hear Baghdad Bob is looking for a job opportunity in the U.S.
Leni
Next stop, a czar position in the Othuggo administration perhaps?
What took so long? He was arranging dinners all summer, right?
This took how long?
Actually, granddaughter.
OOPS! Just saw your correction. But seems I recall she was a favorite of MeeMaw and was named for her.
me too
Yes, I’m sure she is Meemaw’s namesake.
Kay Graham was the Queen of Left Wing Georgetown for a generation or two. Her daughter Lally worked for Bobby Kennedy, Ben Bradlee was a confidant of JFK, and of course, the two of them worked tirelessly to bag Dick Nixon.
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