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Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar - Mike Allen and Michael Calderone - POLITICO.com
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" ? Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper?s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its ?health care reporting and editorial staff." With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the M

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The laughable 4th Estate demonstrates how much they are in the pocket of the OBAMA administration. If ABC's embarrassing and poorly rated infomercial weren't enough proof to show the depths to which journalism has sunk, this little "Salon" in the home of the publisher of the Wash. Posts proves that we no longer have a MSM that even pretends to be objective.
publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress,
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