QUOTE (DanteGabriel @ Jul 2 2009, 12.16)

Washington Post caught trying to pimp out its political access and even its own reporters and editors to lobbyists

Wow...they get downright fucking transparent about it.

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"Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate," says the one-page flier. "Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. ... Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table. Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders."

What.The.Fuck? Wrote a rant just yesterday about how worthless the media coverage of the healthcare debate was. At the time I thought it was just shitty reporting. Now I'm not sure. So they send out the flyer, it goes public, newsroom goes in an uproar and they tell us 'Its not what it looks like'? Well than what the fuck is it chief? You send out a flyer to a dinner, explicitly fucking promising that a 'night with these people' can change the debate. Some of the 'people' being offered are Wash. Post execs, writers, and editors. The debate is healthcare, over which there's an ongoing PR war, the target for the fliers was the healthcare industry....

...liberal media my fucking ass. The Washington Post just offered to sell influence over its fucking content to corporate fucking interests. The presumed targets of much of the coverage of that damned topic. And if they actually didn't, they sure as fuck went out of their way to make it look like that's what they were doing.