Posted by
Defend America on Friday, July 03, 2009 6:28:00 AM
Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar
Updated:
7/3/09 12:50 AM EDT
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home
where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and
association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html