talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/2/2009
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We're just digging into this story the Politico broke this morning about the Post offering lobbyists access for cash payments. But I'd say the Post has a real problem on its hands.
Here's the lede ...
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/6/2009
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Last week, Politico reported that the Washington Post
had planned to put on an exclusive off-the-record "salon"...
at the home of its publisher, where corporate lobbyists would pay as much as $250,000 to gain access to Post reporters and editors, as ...
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Not Just WaPo: Atlantic's Corporate-Sponsored "Salons" ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 7/3/2009
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Howie Kurtz worked all day yesterday trying to
come up with a narrative that would make the...
Washington Post's Pay2Play scheme look less damning. His latest effort is notable for several reasons: He killed the anonymous quotations from Weymouth and ...
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Howie Kurtz’s Latest Story: Weymouth Defends Post’s ...
washingtonexaminer.com - 7/2/2009
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washingtonexaminer.com —
The Washington Post has long prided itself on
its access to the capital's elite. Now, it appears,...
the paper is willing to sell that access. In a flier circulated to Beltway lobbyists, the Post touted a "salon" program which gives "exclusive access" ...
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Washington Post sells access, White House denies involvement
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The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... the home of Post CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth; the topic of the first one, advertised int the flier, is health care. Evidently a lobbyist felt uncomfortable with the ethics of it--a newspaper appearing to peddle influence in a $25,000-per-ticket lobbying session, serving as interlocutor between lobbyists and the White House, assuring the cooperation of its editorial staff, and perhaps the chance to influence reporters--and gave a copy of the flier to Allen. Lots of bloggers shared the sentiment. The Post's Ezra Klein, one of the ...
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Obama talks jobs, Jackson, and Russia —
msnbc.com: Politics 7/2/2009
With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer economically.
Sanford Loses Book Deal —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 7/2/2009
Susan Davis reports on politics.
A week after he admitted to an extramarital affair, South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford has lost his book deal with Sentinel, a conservative outfit under the Penguin Group.
“Sentinel has agreed ...
Money train: The cost of high-speed rail —
CNN Political Ticker 7/2/2009
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – President Obama is pouring $13 billion into an ambitious high-speed rail project. Some say it will never make money. Some say it will. And still others say profit is not even the point.
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