The Washington Post, desperate for revenue, has resorted to stripping off its clothes and crawling around naked on the floor for dollars. In a recent flier the paper has announced that for a price it will arrange a private dinner for highly placed individuals with an interest in the "health care" debate to be joined by Obama officials.
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.[Politico]
Ahhh, the fresh, clean trustworthy journalism of an unbiased media. (not)
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