Comments on: WaPo ombud demolishes paper’s cover story on WaPimping

By: Jeff from WI

Jeff from WI — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:33:52 +0000

Hewlett Packard

Packard Caribbean

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:04:54 +0000

* Toyota

They’re using an “O” motif in an ad for their Prius hybrid.

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:01:28 +0000

* Cleveland Clinic

I wonder how many other medical institutions have ponied up, besides Medco and the Cleveland Clinic.

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:58:56 +0000

* Hewlett Packard

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:57:46 +0000

Let’s begin listing the Washington Post’s advertisers.

* Sprint
* Medco

It looks as if Sprint is the main advertiser keeping them going.

By: Herb

Herb — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:56:29 +0000

For the constitutional free press men & women have died and this is how these newspapers treat this special right? Maybe the new attorney general Eric Holder will straighten out this mess the Obama administration inherited from GWB and investigate the CIA.

By: JabbaTheTutt

JabbaTheTutt — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:33:02 +0000

How long before Andrew Alexander is looking for a new job?

At least he has proven his courage and his skillz.

By: PoliGazette » WaPo Ombudsman Crushes WaPo’s Journalistic Integrity

PoliGazette » WaPo Ombudsman Crushes WaPo’s Journalistic Integrity — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:04:21 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey: The Washington Post tried to explain away its “salons”, which basically sold off-the-record access to the Post’s journalists and government officials for lobbyists, as a misunderstanding and mistaken marketing campaign by one of its executives. WaPo ombud Andrew Alexander demolishes the cover story that made Charles Pelton the fall guy, and clearly shows that both publisher Katharine Weymouth and executive editor Marcus Brauchli not only knew that the salons provoked serious ethics questions, their chosen fall guy raised them before producing the fliers that exposed the program (emphases mine, viaInstapundit). [...]

By: Bloodthirsty Liberal » So Busted

Bloodthirsty Liberal » So Busted — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:42:09 +0000

[...] like a good whoremonger, it lied when it got [...]

By: ajacksonian

ajacksonian — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:31:48 +0000

The WaPo didn’t want to afflict the comfortable, so they got afflicted for comforting their friends. The afflicted have no friends in the MSM any more: they are to be taxed and given things by government and controlled by government.

With the MSM cheering.

Of course the WaPo has incentive to try and right itself: Washington Times and Washington Examiner.

The Post has better comics. Too bad they are on the Op-Ed page.

The Times has better news coverage.

The Examiner is free and has better coverage, and yet is making money, apparently as circulation drives ad revenue in print and online ads gain revenue there.

The WaPo’s circulation is going down, the Times remains stable and the Examiner is growing… soon, very soon, the major paper in DC will be the WaTimes… and if we are lucky in NY it will be the Post. Post for Times, Times for Post.

By: WaPo ombud demolishes paper�s cover story - Southern Maryland Community Forums

WaPo ombud demolishes paper�s cover story - Southern Maryland Community Forums — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:24:57 +0000

[...] them before producing the fliers that exposed the program (emphases mine, via Instapundit): Hot Air � Blog Archive � WaPo ombud demolishes paper�s cover story on WaPimping This is almost as hilarious as Puffington Post saying they’re not in the tank for the Messiah. [...]

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:02:09 +0000

an excellent job by this ombudsman in keeping the readers’ interests in mind.

Is there any more room under the bus? He’ll be smeared as incompetent, erratic, or just plain crazy before the day is over.

BacaDog on July 11, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Heh! You forgot senile. (Walpin is smiling.)

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:48:35 +0000

PS Horndog, a quick Google image search will reveal that this is an uncharacteristically flattering photo. Meow.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:44:57 +0000

“Hey, who is the newspaper chick in the pic?”

the Coondawg on July 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM

That, my friend, is none other than Katharine Weymouth, Publisher of the Washington Post by birthright. Is there a more perfect photo for this story of journalistic prostitution than the Publisher looking like quite the slut?

By: PersonFromPorlock

PersonFromPorlock — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:31:10 +0000

How does the Post salvage its credibility now?

They practice a refined ignoring of the problem until it goes away. Think of a Dutchess who’s just farted.

By: KyserS

KyserS — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:56:41 +0000

Replace Katharine Weymouth with Andrew Alexander!
(I can dream can’t I?)

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:28:54 +0000

I want to join several others here in stating, not for the first time, that the real story is at the other end of this arrangement- the White House.

Follow this train of thought, if you please:
1. The WAPO “guaranteed” access to WH officials with three weeks to go.
2. Which means they had WH officials already lined up.
3. Which means WH officials had to have already gotten permission to participate.
4. Which means that someone in the WH staff give permission for officials to appear at a for-profit event that is making money off of their official capacities as WH officials.
5. Which means that someone at a very high level in the White House made a policy decision that this kind of obviously sensitive collaboration with the media was okay.
6. How high up was that policy decison made?

Hint at my hunch: his office is not rectangular.

Isn’t there a single investigative journalist in the US that will investigate Democrats anymore?

By: Yoop

Yoop — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:50:10 +0000

It is amazing what stupid things smart people will do. Really.

Terrye on July 11, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Is there any proof regarding the smart part?

By: Fred 2

Fred 2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:29:28 +0000

This story is already down the memory hole.

By: pabarge

pabarge — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:26:37 +0000

Regarding Katharine Weymouth and executive editor Marcus Brauchli

The Ho’s must go!

By: swede7

swede7 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:24:27 +0000

Hey, when your WaPo 747 is spiraling in toward terra firma, your options are to bail out, or come up with some innovative procedures pronto. Transforming your aircraft into a cruise ship was probally not the best choice.

I’d be looking for a lot more of this goofiness from the flagship lib rags in the days to come. The entertainment value will be awesome. Let the games begin!

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:23:36 +0000

It is amazing what stupid things smart people will do. Really.

By: platypus

platypus — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:18:53 +0000

How can ya get back credibility if you won’t grant an interview to your ombudsman?

mockmook on July 11, 2009 at 4:15 PM

The best way is to never give it up in the first place. But this is the State Run Media we’re talking about.

By: BuckeyeSam

BuckeyeSam — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:18:02 +0000

I’m interested to know how deep this goes. Other than morons sitting at newsroom management desks, which of the following editorial writers, if any, were in on this scheme?

Post Opinion Writers

Joel Achenbach
Anne Applebaum
David Broder
Jonathan Capehart
Richard Cohen
Jackson Diehl
E.J. Dionne
Michael Gerson
Fred Hiatt
Jim Hoagland
David Ignatius
Robert Kagan
Al Kamen
Colbert King
Michael Kinsley
Ezra Klein
Charles Krauthammer
William Kristol
Sebastian Mallaby
Ruth Marcus
Robert McCartney
Harold Meyerson
Dana Milbank
Courtland Milloy
Kathleen Parker
Steven Pearlstein
Eugene Robinson
Robert Samuelson
George Will
Fareed Zakaria

At a minimum, I’d love a paragraph response from each of these writers to see where they stand. I’d really love to see where Capheart, Dionne, and Robinson stand.

By: platypus

platypus — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:17:00 +0000

It would have been less seedy if they offered strippers and booze at these salons, then you could call it entertainment and leave it at that.

Mr. Joe on July 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM

Are we sure they didn’t? This is the lib elite we’re talking about.