Your Liberal Media

I have to admit that despite my deep-seated cynicism this has left me stunned:

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it’s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.

The smart thing would be to assume that anything one reads in the WaPo is pure propaganda.

DougJ writes:

It’s time to stop pretending that elite national media does anything other than represent wealthy interests, isn’t it?

This is an astounding development.

[Via Romenesko.]

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Comments

[sherry]

some days it just all seem a waste of time to even fight it. : (

[spork_incident]

There's no point in fighting it as newspapers are busy committing suicide.

Ooops, I mean bloggers are murdering newspapers.

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