{"id":191720,"date":"2009-07-02T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel-3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:20:00","slug":"time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/time-for-a-blogger-ethics-panel-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0709\/24441.html\">Washington Post is selling access to, for sums in excess of $25,000.00, access to the &#8220;powerful few&#8221; in DC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to &#8220;those powerful few&#8221;: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and \u2014 at first \u2014 even the paper\u2019s own reporters and editors.<\/p>\n<p>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 conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its \u201chealth care reporting and editorial staff.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that WaPo executive editor Marcus Brauchli has circulated a memo saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/49515\/the-post-responds-to-the-politico-story\">members of the news department are prohibited from attending<\/a>, which is unsurprising, since they got caught.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I wouldn&#8217;t expect journalists to turn down free food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Washington Post is selling access to, for sums in excess of $25,000.00, access to the &#8220;powerful few&#8221; in DC: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to &#8220;those powerful few&#8221;: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and \u2014 at first \u2014 even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1129,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}