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Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel
Matthew Yglesias —
... innovative ways to cash in. The Atlantic, where I was working last summer, now earns a substantial amount of revenue by having its writing staff serve as entertainment for hyper-wealthy summer vacationers at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival. And the New Yorker, I know, now stages a lot of “events” where I guess people pay money to see New Yorker writers speak in person. This mostly strikes me as clever and unobjectionable, a smart way of adapting, but you can always wind up stumbling into awkward territory: ...
Washington Post reportedly selling health care lobbyists and CEOs access to its journalists, Obama officials.
Think Progress —
... The Politico reports that the Washington Post, for a price of $25,000 to $250,000, is “offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to ‘those powerful few’ — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.” While the Politico notes that on-the-record events and conferences are becoming a trend in the newspaper industry, this type of closed, pay-for-access event raises serious ethical concerns. The flier for the event, titled “Health-Care Reform: Better ...
