Too late, the cat's out of the bag and the damage is done. It comes as no surprise though, news organizations have been buying access for decades, it took an outsider (Politico.com?) to expose what most within the industry already know to be common practice. Exposing the Post, as a front for the political power's that be, providing access to a limited group for a fee is a first. A bizarre fee for service scheme in tough economic times points to an industry problem. News gatherers have turned investigative journalism into insider dictation; rewriting what is spoon fed to them by a nontransparent government controlling the conversation. The Post and who knows what others have been journalistically compromised. Access is how Al Gore was able to scam the world. Al Gore's propaganda machine became the tainted media's only source for false global warming claims that were never vetted. Obama has upped the ante and taken greater control. Journalists forgot how to ask the 'question' and have merely become parrots in promoting an agenda. The fact remains; media's fall, contraction, or fail, however coined is directly related to the loss of subscriber confidence and the economy only partially helped in accelerating newspapers demise, despite their pandering. Media (Obama's indoctrinated public information foot soldiers) with blind obedience to the Obama/Axlerod propaganda machine certainly does not help bolster that public trust moving forward. The Obama Post should be publicly shunned, they can no longer be considered an independent news outlet. Katherine Graham would be roiling.

"The Washington Post offered an explanation Thursday for revelations that Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth would host lobbyists and association executives in her home for off-the-record conversations with officials from the Obama administration, lawmakers and Post editorial staff. The fee for the encounters -- or "salons" as they are described -- ranges from $25,000 to $250,000. A marketing flier for the outreach was obtained and made public by Politico.com, which noted that the offer "essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters" and demonstrated the extreme lengths to which a paper would go to ..."

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