{"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&#8217;ll Not Get Useful Health Care Policy News from WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0709\/24441.html\">Nice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For $25,000 to $250,000, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0309\/20479.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to &#8220;those powerful few&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0509\/22371.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama <\/a>administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own reporters and editors.<\/p>\n<p>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.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your free press hard at work.  Meanwhile, Dana Milbank is still whining about the Internets asking questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to &#8220;those powerful few&#8221; \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 [&hellip;]<\/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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}