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Balloon Juice — Kurtz (hey, he’s quick with these things as much as I hate him) has the response from the WaPo newsroom: The Washington Post’s executive editor said today he is “appalled” by a plan to charge lobbyists as much as $250,000 for off-the-record gatherings at the home of the paper’s publisher—with Obama administration officials, members of Congress and the paper’s reporters and editors—and insisted that the newsroom will not participate. “It suggests that access to Washington Post journalists ...

Who were the WaPo’s dancing girls?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Madame Weymouth. For Sebelius, those questions get even more interesting.  Barack Obama made a fetish of demonizing lobbyists during the campaign.  He even created rules that bar lobbyists from discussing Porkulus provisions with federal employees.  Now we hear that Sebelius thought it might be a great idea to rub elbows with lobbyists at tony — and private — “salons” run by newspaper publishers.  It appears that for the Obama White House, some lobbyists are less demonic than others. Howard Kurtz’s final report on the Post’s pimping career focuses on the man Kurtz says is to ...

Not Just WaPo: Atlantic's Corporate-Sponsored "Salons" Tout "Private Conversations" With Top Journos, Lawmakers
TPMMuckraker — ... It's not just the Atlantic, of course. As the Post helpfully pointed out in its effort to do damage control on the scandal, the Wall Street Journal earlier this year "brought together global finance leaders -- including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd -- for a two-day conference sponsored by Nasdaq and hosted by Robert Thomson, the Journal's top editor, and other editors and reporters." But that too was on-the-record, and was web-cast by the Journal. ...