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The Post?s ?Powerful Few?: Newspaper Under Fire for Arranging Dinners Between Reporters, Lobbyists, and Politicians

By jonathanturley

The Washington Post is accused of arranging for meetings between power brokers, lobbyists, and politicians, including Post reporters and editors for $25,000 to $250,000. These meetings are billed as off the record, non-confrontational access to “those powerful few” in the Beltway. Called “Salons,” the entire program is raising eyebrows in both the media [...]

Full post as published by Res ipsa loquitur on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).