Washington Post publisher passes salon buck

In a special letter to the public, Washington Post publisher Katherine Weymouth, granddaughter of THE Katherine, a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/04/AR2009070402253.html"pretty totally dodges responsibility/a for the Post’s recent idea of “pay-for-play” salons to bring together Post editorial staffers alongside White House staff and lobbyists, etc.br /br /That’s totally contrary to what she told New York Times reporter David Carr just a day earlier, claiming she took a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/business/media/04post.html"full responsibility/a for the fiasco.br /br /Carr notes this:br /blockquoteMs. Weymouth’s excuse — that the salon brochure “completely misrepresented what we were trying to do” didn’t track with many reporters, who have already been contending with cutbacks at the paper./blockquotebr /That “explanation” she holds on to a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/04/AR2009070402253.html"in her public letter/a:br /blockquoteThe flier was not approved by me or newsroom editors, and it did not accurately reflect what we had in mind./blockquotebr /Boy, the Politico will have fun with this!div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-606305041376758992?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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