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Access Denied
The Corner on National Review Online —
... this administration favors certain journalists with extra access. In that respect, it is mimicking the Blair government in the U.K., which was famous not just for giving extra access to favorable journalists, but denying it to critical journalists. Putting the two pieces together, it might not be long before access becomes a commodity, and writing favorably about the administration not only gets extra access, but becomes profitable. That's why I am also very glad to see the excellent Howard Kurtz and via him, the Post 's executive editor, recognize that possibility and how ...
Washington Post's own regretted story
The Swamp —
... Who better to tell this tale than the Post's own Howard Kurtz, media critic and star of TV's Reliable Sources: ...
WaPo scraps salon scheme
Political Animal —
... " by the proposed "salon," and said the newsroom will not participate in the event. "We do not offer access to the newsroom for money," Brauchli said. "We just are not in that business." The Post went on to tell staffers that the scheduled event was put together by the corporate office's business operation, without the knowledge of the editors. But just to remove any questions of impropriety, the scheduled "salon" was cancelled altogether this afternoon. Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after ...
The Business Of Access Journalism
TalkLeft —
... So the Washington Post has scrapped its full monty pay for play scheme. But it is important to remember that the business of Traditional "journalism" now is in fact favorable coverage in exchange for access - which can be just as pernicious. A couple of days ago, ...
Washington Post cancels plan to charge lobbyists to attend 'salons'
Top of the Ticket —
... Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today canceled plans for a series of policy dinners at her home after learning that marketing fliers offered lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress and Post journalists in exchange for payments as high as $250,000. ...
Washington Post Plans Salons With Lobbyists: Anyone Shocked?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , his eerily practiced language, speaking in a resounding, "How did that happen?" And shock was similarly off the menu when Howard Kurtz reliably went around collecting everyone's statement, keeping the "critic" part of his "media critic" title corralled in the passive voice. ...
Washington Post says you're irrelevant on health care
Daily Kos —
... Post flier selling access for money: "An exclusive opportunity to participate in the health-care reform debate among the select few who will actually get it done." You have the second most important newspaper in the country feeding the Beltway conceit that anyone outside of the DC elite power structure is irrelevant, that only a powerful few will "actually get it done", and a little cash will help you "alter the debate". More: [Washington Post CEO and Publisher Katherine] Weymouth knew of the plans to ...
Dana Milbank's employer, the Washington Post, planned "Salons" (at $25,000 a pop) offering access to high-level officials
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — was a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival. And it's a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices.That sounds like working in collusion with an administration to me. Early this afternoon, the Post canceled the Salons. It was all just a big mistake. ...
Washington Post, Caught Brokering Access, Digs Deeper
Firedoglake —
... The WaPo now has its very own Howard Kurtz story reporting its very own pay-to-play scandal. But in my opinion, it raises as many questions as it answers. ...
The Washington Post pimping-itself-to-lobbyists scandal
Betsy's Page —
WaPo Publisher Still Complaining Dinner Parties At Her House Didn't Compromise Journalism
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The Washington Post may have canceled its $25,000-a-plate dinners matching lobbyists with top officials, but Publisher Katharine Weymouth is still not seeing it the way journalists do: paying for private dinners at the publisher’s private home looks like deal-making rather than news-making. Howard Kurtz’s Friday story revealed the Weymouth worldview: ...
Early Word: A Snafu at the Post
The Caucus —
... as members of President Obama’s administration and Congress. The Times’s Richard Perez-Pena explains: With the print business in tough straits, many news organizations have turned to conferences and other events to raise revenue and their profiles. But the planned Post events seem particularly audacious, not only acting essentially as a paid conduit between lobbyists and government officials, but also providing sponsors the opportunity to make their case to Post journalists. Here’s what the Post itself had to say about the snafu, under a headline about “Journalistic ...
The Not So Hard Working Washington Post
Riehl World View —
... No wonder the Washington Post loves Obama and liberal Democrats so much. Remember the salon, or corporate dinners fiasco - meeting with high level Post folks for cash? ...
