The Washington Post's boneheaded—and aborted—plan to lobby for lobbyists.

Mike Allen's early-morning report in Politico that the Washington Post intended to sell access to its newsroom to lobbyists forced the paper's publisher and editor to back down from their plan at record speed. Allen reported that the Post had circulated a flier offering "lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to 'those powerful few': Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and—at first—even the ... Full Story »

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Shafer looks at the WaPo insensitivity to journalistic ethics, noting along the way the WSJ similar ethical blindness. Journalistically important.

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  • A Letter to Our Readers

    I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last ...
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