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The Washington Post... I don't even know where to begin with this one. Needing to raise funds they came up with this brilliant idea. Their publisher, Katharine Waymouth, would host 'salons.' And people could buy sponsorships of those salons. At those salons Waymouth would host they would meet, the WaPo promised, officials from the Obama administration and other power brokers. Their 'apology' doesn't even pass the laugh test.
Or, as Crooks and Liars put it:
Apparently the Very Serious People™ in the Village have a very different idea of journalism than they led us to believe. After their own columnist Dana Milbank lost his marbles and dignity over a DFH blogger asking a question, the Washington Post hits an all new low:
"For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors."
The question I want answered is, how did the WAPO know they could guarantee access to Obama officials? Why did they feel comfortable advertising that access to buyers?
