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The corrupting effect of the David Bradley's off-the-record Atlantic salons. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
slate.com - 7/8/2009
The corrupting effect of the David Bradley's off-the-record Atlantic salons. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
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David Bradley. David Bradley The off-the-record-for-dollars salon scheme that got Katharine Weymouth and the Washington Post in so much trouble last week prompted TPM Muckraker to flush David Bradley—owner and publisher of the Atlantic —into the open about his salon-happy organization. In an ...

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JACK SHAFER CHARGES A “CORRUPTING EFFECT” from The Atlantic’s “salons.” Plus, what they could learn…
Instapundit — ... JACK SHAFER CHARGES A “CORRUPTING EFFECT” from The Atlantic’s “salons.” Plus, what they could learn from the CATO Institute. ...

Information Wants to Be Free
Megan McArdle — ... But this Jack Shafer article is just silly.  Off the record conversations allow journalists to get much deeper understanding of what's going on. That's why journalists talking to their friends about their jobs at companies of interest to the journalist talk off the record.  I'm sure that Jack Shafer has done this, or else he doesn't have any friends in the media. ...

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