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 ...
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Shameful. Just as the annual White House correspondents gathering are shameful. Reporters should not be cavorting with the very people they are supposed to be objectively covering.