A brouhaha for the Washington Post
The Washington Post found itself in a dustup today over Politico’s reporting that the paper was selling sponsorships to salons for lobbyists and association executives at the home of Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth. The fliers marketing the salons offered off-the-record sessions with journalists and newsmakers. Sponsorships were $25,000 for a single session and $250,000 for a series.
The company has canceled the plans and media reporter Howard Kurtz quotes Weymouth as saying: “This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren’t vetted. They didn’t represent at all what we were attempting to do. We’re not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom.”
Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli told Politico: “You cannot buy access to a Washington Post journalist.” He was named on the flier as one of the “Hosts and Discussion Leaders.”
Jean is projects editor at the Post-Dispatch. She is a member of Bridges Across Racial Polarization, a group devoted to creating friendships and fostering communication among racial and cultural groups in the community. After growing up in a small town in Kansas, she lived in Kansas City and Wilmington, Del., before moving to St. Louis in 2004. She and her husband, Dan Wiggs, live in University City. 
-So, it’s OK to buy politicians, just not journalists.
-Sorry, you’ve been bought long ago. Maybe not with monetary remuneration, but you have sold your soul to the democrat party.
-So, we’ve established that you are whores for the dems, now just negotiate the price.
Well, one good thing came out of this blog. I didn’t know that is how you spell brouhaha…
We’re not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom.”
That horse left the barn a long time ago.
There’s a term for this sort of thing. It rhymes with “roar”.
This is a complete disgrace. Why has it not occurred to the newspaper industry to just try reporting the truth and real news and not just people sitting in fountains (the P-D). Perhaps if newspapers improved their reporting, people would actually read them. I have to use the Internet or the radio to get all my news. The newspaper “filter” on news is disgraceful. Now that they have their NeoMarxist in office, they still won’t report anything.
But there is Helen Thomas and she is ticked off and she let giggling Gibbs have it yesterday. Sorry, Gibby, you have pissed off the press and some of them are actually starting to realize what a shame the Obamanation is.
I just hope it is not too late to save our country from the loons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5vzOAEQ-A
The Washington Post is still a better paper than the STL P-D. They report more than just local and celebrity/entertainment news. If you want to know what Congress is doing, you have to read THE Post. P-D tells you less than nothing.
I think I agree with you A Centrist.
……“You cannot buy access to a Washington Post journalist.”…”Sponsorships were $25,000 for a single session and $250,000 for a series”………I’d think that if it looks like a rose and smells like a rose, it probably is a rose (or something).
The print press has not been doing it’s job for years now. I applauded Helen Thomas when she let W’s press secretary have it and I applaud her now. You’re not supposed to be friends with the White House, you’re suppose to be our watch dog.
A CENTRIST,
Their little NeoMarxist?
Now one who can’t take it back in return should certainly cease dishing out all the pathetic and unfair name calling of others. Just think of all the befitting insulting names that you could be called.
D.Walker - are you paying attention to what the NeoMarxists are doing to our country? You have called me plenty of names and don’t even know me, so you may be the pot calling the kettle black. Please tell me where my term NeoMarxist is incorrect rather then just acccusing me of “namecalling.” Stand by your words Walker. You have allowed the Democrats to subjugate you your whole life, so I guess I can see how you can just attack my words without substance. Ideology is a substitute for thought. Open up your eyes and your mind before you speak.
In Washington, everything is for sale, including journalistic integrity. The Washington Post, which abandoned investigative reporting eons ago, decided to boost its sagging revenues by spreading her legs.
I say damn the old fashioned moralists. America would be much better served if the Washington Post was selling access to lobbyists instead of selling the US government’s PSYOPS operations in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Venezuela, Honduras, and everywhere else, for which the paper receives a pittance: the reporter can tell his editor that he has a deep source within the government, hardly an adequate recompense for wars that cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars at a time when Americans cannot pay the mortgages on their homes.
Once the American media is obviously a whorehouse, which it is, Americans might pull themselves out of their stupor and learn to recognize facts and to think for themselves.
Still employed, Steve?
What’s the logjam?
Can’t figure out how to spell I.G.?