Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander came out swinging in his Sunday column. He called the plan to sell sponsorships for a dinner of journalists and power brokers in the publisher’s home an “ethical lapse of monumental proportions.” According to Alexander, publisher Katharine Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli have “now taken full responsibility.” Bless their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘journalism’
Washington Post: Follow the Money…or Not
Posted in Politics, tagged ethics, journalism, katharine weymouth, washington post on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Empty Chair at the WaPo Salon
Posted in Politics, tagged ethics, journalism, newspaper, washington post on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They would have had not a chair, really, or even an empty place at Katharine Weymouth’s health care reform “salon.” Her dining table would have been crammed full, since there’s no shortage of politicos willing to ante up the $25,000-per-lobbyist admission price for dinner. But for patients – the people most affected by health care [...]
Presstitutes: All the News That’s Fit to Pimp
Posted in Politics, tagged ethics, journalism, washington post, watergate on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my colleague Melinda Henneberger on the subject of The Washington Post’s pay-to-play scandal and her dropped jaw: Word! We all remember watching President Nixon taking off in his helicopter after resigning. We remember Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, as Washington Post reporters Bernstein and Woodward, sweating it out in “All the President’s Men,” a [...]
The Mata Hari Defense
Posted in Writing, tagged facebook, journalism, Media, sarah lacy, sxsw 2008, zuckerberg interview on April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday while reading Tech Crunch, I came upon an appalling post: Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Now? Sarah Lacy reveals that ten years ago she stumbled out of a liberal arts college with a lackluster GPA, but she managed to land a job at a weekly business journal. Her friend that majored [...]
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