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Krugerrand
07-02-2009, 09:24 AM
This is sickening.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090702/pl_politico/24441;_ylt=AhEiyXjJHNlcT5TJK2nYHXRbbBAF;_ylu=X3oDM TJybG5qMjIyBGFzc2V0Ay9wb2xpdGljby8yMDA5MDcwMi9wbF9 wb2xpdGljby8yNDQ0MQRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzMEc2VjA3luX3Rvc F9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawN3YXNocG9zdG9mZmU-


For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational 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."