{"id":3116,"date":"2009-07-02T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T14:35:15","slug":"reason-431-youll-not-get-useful-health-care-policy-news-from-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/07\/02\/reason-431-youll-not-get-useful-health-care-policy-news-from-wapo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #431 You’ll Not Get Useful Health Care Policy News from WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post<\/a> is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama <\/a>administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own reporters and editors.<\/p>\n

The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he feels it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153health care reporting and editorial staff.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Your free press hard at work. Meanwhile, Dana Milbank is still whining about the Internets asking questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t