Washington Post cancels lobbyist event amid uproar

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — 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 ... Full Story »

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4.3
by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 2, 2009

The report includes investigative questioning of the Post's official story. The tale of rich corporations buying news and selling viewpoints paints an unsavory view of the big corporate media.

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