A Must-Read About the Washington Post Pay-to-Play Scandal
July 8, 2009 at 4:17 AM Leave a comment
Thomas -What’s the Matter with Kansas – Frank has a dead on op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today about the Washington Post pay-to-play scandal.
Money quote:
In such a ham-handed manner, too. When the leading newspaper of the capital city of the world’s most powerful country decides to turn influence-peddler, is this the best it can do? An advertisement that reads as though it were promoting expensive scotch? (“Bringing together those powerful few.”) Not even favorite Post targets like Jack Abramoff stooped to that.
Even worse were the lame excuses offered by the paper’s brass, who blamed one another after the embarrassing story broke and immediately cancelled the get-together. The flier hadn’t been properly “vetted,” they said. Ms. Weymouth had been out of town. Plus assorted other feeble explanations.
During the Watergate era, I had tremendous respect for the Washington Post. Now I have none.
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