Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Washington Post publisher: We blew it.
Written on July 8, 2009 – 3:13 pm | by larrylibido
Katharine Graham’s Washington soirees are legendary, and so it’s perhaps not surprising that granddaughter Katharine Weymouth, herself now publisher of The Washington Post, would want to recreate them.
But she, and the paper, suffered a major embarrassment over the past few days, when details about the new so-called salons leaked out.
Unlike Graham’s parties, people were to pay to get into these, gaining exclusive access to Washington politicians and Post editors and reporters, according to a flier sent out by the paper’s marketing department a few weeks ago.
The prices were steep, at $25,000 for one salon and $250,000 for the series, to be held at Weymouth’s house with discussions led by Post editor Marcus Brauchli.
When Politico broke word of the plans late last week, the Post was assailed by columnists, bloggers and just about anyone else with an interest in unbiased journalism, generating headlines like “All The News That’s Fit To Pimp.”