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Washington Post • plan of to hold "salons" at which access to government and media figures could be sold to lobbyists for big bucks is embarrassingly abandoned...
Brauchli spent much of the morning calling news organizations clarifying his newsroom's stance. "We insist on remaining journalists at any event," he says. "Anything said at the conferences would be allowed to shape and inform our coverage." So much for off the record. And most importantly, Post journalists were not going to be pimping the event, calling around their sources and contacts in the Administration to get them to come to the dinner, as the invitation seemed to imply...
That, we guess, would have been the job of Weymouth, 42, who is the granddaughter of Post's longtime publisher, Katharine Graham, and has only been the Washington Post's CEO since February of last year. Unlike her uncle Donald Graham, current chairman of the Washington Post Co., and the man she is expected to succeed, Weymouth, 42, never worked as a journalist, joining the family company in 1996 as a lawyer...
Either way, it's the Post's name that would have drawn prominent figures to the event. And it's the Post's name that has been besmirched by what was at best extremely poor party planning and at worst a breach of the line between the editorial and commercial imperatives of a newspaper...
Perhaps if there are any cautionary tales to be drawn from the Post Party Plan incident - apart from the fact that you should always copyedit your invitations - it's that credibility and prestige are two of the most valuable assets the mainstream media has. In attempting to monetize them, it has to be extremely careful not to fritter them away...