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Washington Post sells access, $25,000+

Thu, 2009-07-02 08:52 — ABN

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

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 “health care reporting and editorial staff."

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We have known for a long time that all is not well with the Fourth Estate, but did not expect them to begin selling the silverware out the back door this soon. ABN

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Thu, 2009-07-02 09:28 — ABN

Froomkin's revenge?

Froomkin's revenge?