At 9 am, I see the Politico piece on how the Washington Post is now selling off-the-record access to “those powerful few” to lobbyists for up to $250K. Those few being Obama administration officials, members of Congress and it’s own journalists!
Fantastic, I think, I’ll make this my next blog post! The most expensive dinner party you could ever attend. Would the journalists get a cut or was dinner at Katharine Weymouth's house reward enough?
However, soon enough, I see it on many, many other blog sites and referred to in many, many tweets. By mid-day, Jeff Jarvis re-tweets this parody, which Lee Stranahan created and posted on YouTube. So fast!
Not much later, the Post blamed their marketing department and denied that they ever intended to peddle their reporters. As a marketer, I object! Though I have to admit, it was a very strange choice to put that kind of information in a flyer. A flyer!
Oh come on! How’s a blogger with a day-job supposed to keep up?
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