And if Obama allows ANY administration offical to dine with a Washington Post employee he will void any claim to Lobbyist reform... Obama should publicly condemn this... And it is one further nail in the Old Medias Objectivity credibility...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html >>> For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and >>> association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those >>> powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and >>> the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff." The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival. And it's a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24441.html#ixzz0K6wtV6Hp&D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
