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Tonight's Entree: Filet of Integrity
Talking Points Memo — Post publisher Katharine Weymouth to readers: We sure screwed the pooch on those planned pay-for-access private dinners. ...

Katharine Weymouth Apologizes to Wash Post Readers -- But Still Doesn't Explain Pay-for-Play Dinners
Politics Daily — ... The Washington Post's publisher and CEO, Katharine Weymouth, apologized in Sunday's paper for what she calls "a planned new venture that went off track.'' She's referring, of course, to the ...

Some whine with that crow, Lally?
Corrente — Not nearly enough I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. Ah! It's a non-apology apology! Classic. Read more…

Katharine Weymouth apologizes for whatever somehow happened at the Washington Post.
Althouse — The Publisher and CEO of The Washington Post addresses us dear readers: I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind. But let me be clear: The flier was not the only problem. Our mistake was to suggest that we ...

WaPo’s Katharine Weymouth STILL Doesn’t Renounce Pay2Play
Firedoglake — ... Katharine Weymouth has a letter to readers apologizing for the Pay2Play dinner she had scheduled for her home. But it is a muddled mess. She apologizes repeatedly--which seems to me an admission of wrong-doing. ...

Roger Ailes — Who could have guessed that the Katharine Weymouth Escort Agency would have failed so spectacularly? The idea worked so well for George and Lally. ...

WaPo publisher: Hey, sorry for the sell-out
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Katharine Weymouth published an open letter in today’s Washington Post apologizing for the WaPimping scandal that erupted earlier this week.  Weymouth, whose home was to host the “salons” that would have cost $25,000 and up for “sponsorship”, claims that the paper never intended to sell access to its reporters or government officials: I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington ...

WaPo Publisher: Hey, Sorry About Our Political Prostitution
JammieWearingFool — What does a newspaper do after being caught in bed with Democrats? Why, pretend it was all a misunderstanding and beg your dwindling readership to not abandon you because of your integrity . You can't make this stuff up. Dear Reader: I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity . A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom ...

Apology not accepted...
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — The publisher of the Washington Post apologizes for getting caught with proof of their ongoing love affair with the Obama admnistration. ...

Craig Stoltz: Washington Post's "Salon" Disaster and Health Care Reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I won't belabor the issues many others have so thoroughly covered, including today's "apology" by publisher Katharine Weymouth, which feels a bit short of fulsome. ...

Weymouth: WaPo launches internal review
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Following her letter to reader's yesterday, Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth informed staff this afternoon, in a memo obtained by POLITICO, that general counsel Eric Lieberman will ...

WaPo flier wasn't only 'salon' offer
Michael Calderone's Blog — ... Discussion of the flier continued in yesterday's note to readers, where Weymouth said it "did not accurately reflect what we had in mind." And the flier was also the subject of the paper's own piece on the incident Sunday: ...

Weymouth Learns Running a Paper Means Having to Say You're Sorry
Politics Daily — ... Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth's much-awaited apologia for the paper's planned off-the-record dinners at which paying lobbyists would be sitting in journalists' laps (or was it to have been the other way around?) came out in the Post recently with a whimper, not a bang. ...

Why Running a Newspaper Means Having to Say You're Sorry
Politics Daily — ... Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth's much-awaited apologia for the paper's planned off-the-record dinners at which paying lobbyists would be sitting in journalists' laps (or was it to have been the other way around?) came out in the Post recently with a whimper, not a bang. ...

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday
Daily Kos — ... You may have heard that the Washington Post recently got busted for "selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners" at publisher Katharine Weymouth' s house. She says she's sorry and that plans for the off-the-record soirees have been scrapped. ...