..out of the dark

http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/blog/washington-post-rip

which reported that Post publisher Katharine Weymouth has decided to solicit payoffs of between $25,000 and $250,000 from Washington lobbyists, in return for one or more private dinners in her home, where lucky diners will receive a chance for “your organization’s CEO” to interact with “Health-care reporting and editorial staff members of The Washington Post” and “key Obama administration and congressional leaders …”

I.e., it used to be (in a fictional past) that the paper would write stories to impress and inform the public. Who then bought it, because they wanted to get informed. And now the paper finances itself by making sure the stories it writes down are favourable to the lobbyists - who pay to have input on editorial staff considerations. And the paper does this because either the population is stupid and doesn't want to be informed any longer. Or because they earn more money not actually dealing in news, but in propaganda.

I think they had an op- ed by John Bolton again, praising the glory of democracy, free markets and fascism a couple of days ago.