Word: recording
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...pictures of the history of the Land Speed Record...
...revenue and an increasingly crowded field of competitors, things are deeply grim for newspapers. Which only made the Washington Post's new revenue-generating idea even more mystifying. The wording on an invitation it sent out, as first reported on Politico, offers business executives "an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth." That is, if the invitees pony up between $25,000 (to sponsor one dinner) and $250,000 (to sponsor 11 dinners - buy 10, get one free...
...plus "health-care reporting and editorial staff members of The Washington Post." In other words, for a fee, businesses and lobbyists could have access to the sort of high-level opinion makers that the Post has access to as well as the journalists, all in a cozy, off-the-record gathering, where they could "build crucial relationships with Washington Post news executives in a neutral and informal setting." The flier referred to the event as a "salon" and called it "an opportunity to influence the debate." Most other media outlets called it paying for access, or a breach of journalistic...
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...
...never see them, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you're going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. Known as the mysterious "black box," these flight-data recorders are actually not black but orange - and when a plane falls from the sky, they're sometimes the only thing that can help authorities discover exactly what happened...