WashPo; Dear reader...

[Larry Gude]

washingtonpost.com

This is pure art;

Dear Reader:

I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity. A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind. But let me be clear: The flier was not the only problem. Our mistake was to suggest that we would hold and participate in an off-the-record dinner with journalists and power brokers paid for by a sponsor. We will not organize such events. As publisher it is my job to ensure that we adhere to standards that are consistent with our integrity as a news organization. Last week, I let you, and the organization, down. The Washington Post remains committed, now and always, to the highest standards of journalistic integrity. Nothing is more important to us than that, and nothing will shake that commitment.

So what happened? Like other media companies, The Post hosts conferences and live events that bring together journalists, government officials and other leaders for discussions of important topics. These events make news and inform their audiences. We had planned to extend this business to include smaller gatherings, a practice that has become common at other media companies.

From the outset, we laid down firm parameters to ensure that these events would be consistent with The Post's values. If the events were to be sponsored by other companies, everything would be at arm's length -- sponsors would have no control over the content of the discussions, and no special access to our journalists.

If our reporters were to participate, there would be no limits on what they could ask. They would have full access to participants and be able to use any information or ideas to further their knowledge and understanding of any issues under discussion. They would not be asked to invite other participants and would serve only as moderators.

When the flier promoting our first planned event to potential sponsors was released, it overstepped all these lines. Neither I nor anyone in our news department would have approved any event such as the flier described.

We have canceled the planned dinner. While I do believe there is a legitimate way to hold such events, to the extent that we hold events in the future, large or small, we will review the guidelines for them with The Post's top editors and make sure those guidelines are strictly followed. Further, any conferences or similar events The Post sponsors will be on the record.

We all make mistakes and hope to be forgiven for them. I apologize to our readers for the mistakes I made in this case.

We remain committed to you, our readers. We remain committed to the highest standards of integrity. And while we will continue to pursue new lines of business, we will never allow those new avenues to compromise our integrity.

In the meantime, I hope that we can continue to count you as a reader while we promise to continue to bring you the news as it develops, unbiased and with the best reporting and editing we can offer.

Yours respectfully,

Katharine Weymouth

Publisher and CEO, The Washington Post

 

[vraiblonde]

Dear Katharine,

I do not accept your apology because I know you don't mean it. You're not sorry you tried to sell your reporters to special interests - you're just sorry you got caught. Guess the American people aren't as stupid as you had hoped, eh?

But the good news is that now there can be no doubt that WashPo is not a legitimate news source, and is in fact a shady political hack machine. I had suspected that for years, and I thank you for finally laying to rest any questions I might have had.

Unfortunately, it's apparent that you have not learned your lesson because in the last line of your ham-handed mea culpa, you again try to pass your newspaper off as "unbiased", which is obviously not the truth. And if this is "the best reporting and editing" you have to offer, you should consider another line of work.

With utmost disdain,

Vrai

 

[Larry Gude]

Dear Katharine,

I do not accept your apology because I know you don't mean it. You're not sorry you tried to sell your reporters to special interests - you're just sorry you got caught. Guess the American people aren't as stupid as you had hoped, eh?

But the good news is that now there can be no doubt that WashPo is not a legitimate news source, and is in fact a shady political hack machine. I had suspected that for years, and I thank you for finally laying to rest any questions I might have had.

Unfortunately, it's apparent that you have not learned your lesson because in the last line of your ham-handed mea culpa, you again try to pass your newspaper off as "unbiased", which is obviously not the truth. And if this is "the best reporting and editing" you have to offer, you should consider another line of work.

With utmost disdain,

Vrai

But, she apologized...it's got a Hemi...

I posted it without comment because it is just a masterpiece of how the left leaning mind works; look at all the gems in there! It stands as volume speaking monument.

My fav;

These events make news

 

[Bann]

washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

This is pure art;

Gosh, we better tell all the Lefties around here that their beloved Washington Post is not a viable news organization, anymore.

 

[glhs837]

When the flier promoting our first planned event to potential sponsors was released, it overstepped all these lines. Neither I nor anyone in our news department would have approved any event such as the flier described.

So, the guys writing this flier did that on their own, with no interaction with the news folks? Sure they did. sounds like someone made the assumption that nobody would

A)See this thing
B)Understand what it was

 

[Bann]

Dear Katharine,

I do not accept your apology because I know you don't mean it. You're not sorry you tried to sell your reporters to special interests - you're just sorry you got caught. Guess the American people aren't as stupid as you had hoped, eh?

But the good news is that now there can be no doubt that WashPo is not a legitimate news source, and is in fact a shady political hack machine. I had suspected that for years, and I thank you for finally laying to rest any questions I might have had.

Unfortunately, it's apparent that you have not learned your lesson because in the last line of your ham-handed mea culpa, you again try to pass your newspaper off as "unbiased", which is obviously not the truth. And if this is "the best reporting and editing" you have to offer, you should consider another line of work.

With utmost disdain,

Vrai

 

[Bann]

But, she apologized...it's got a Hemi...

I posted it without comment because it is just a masterpiece of how the left leaning mind works; look at all the gems in there! It stands as volume speaking monument.

My fav;

My favorite:

A flier distributed last week suggested that we were selling access to power brokers in Washington through dinners that were to take place at my home. The flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind.

In other words, some low ranking person in her employ designed a flyer inviting people to her home without her knowledge? Wow. I hope she fired that low ranking person right away.

 

[Larry Gude]

Gosh, we better tell all the Lefties around here that their beloved Washington Post is not a viable news organization, anymore.

Oh, no, no, no. Au contraire. The Post is a viable and valuable news organization; one of the keys of winning a battle is in knowing your opponent.

If you and I are battling it out and you KNOW where I'm gonna go if we're arguing, say, health care, then, if you aren't ready when I whip it out either I've got a better idea or you don't deserve to win because you ain't prepared.

This is why I blow a gasket every time someone makes the inane defense of W that the media 'made him do it'. If Bush is that stupid or unprepared, he doesn't deserve to be in charge anyway. It's like having sympathy for a fire chief whose guys all get burnt because the boss didn't think they'd need water. Point being, the Post and most of the left wing media are a given to what they will do and say. They print their game plan every day.

Limbaugh spelled this out for any dummies back in '94 to the GOP freshmen who took over the House for the first time in 40 years;

Do NOT get caught up in the media and try to be pals. They do NOT want to be pals. They want to destroy you and if pretending to like you gets it done, woe to you. This was McCain's origiinal sin, serving the media who cut him off at the knees when it matter most after being their 'pal' for 20 years and handing them McCain/Feingold.