<![CDATA[Washington Post Cancels Off The Record Salons Following Uproar Over Pay To Play Access]]>

1.0 link 224658 <![CDATA[Washington Post Cancels Off The Record Salons Following Uproar Over Pay To Play Access]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/02/washington-post-selling-l_n_224658.html Update: The Washington Post has canceled its planned salon at Katharine Weymouth's home based on the uproar over the sale of access to government officials and members of the Washington Post staff. The publisher spoke to her own paper's Howard Kurtz:

"Absolutely, I'm disappointed," Weymouth, the chief executive of Washington Post Media, said in an interview. "This should never have happened. The fliers got out and weren't vetted. They didn't represent at all what we were attempting to do. We're...

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