WaPo cancels event selling powerbrokers, lobbyists access to its reporters for $25K and up
Pams House blend Jul 03 09Holy crap -- conflict of interest, please? For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" - Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper's own reporters and editors.
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's a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its "health care reporting and editorial staff."
The offer - which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters - is a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival. Full story...
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Joseph Backholm answers the straw man's question
Pams House blend 8 hours agoThe anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called "BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN'T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION (sic) OF CHURCH AND STATE?".
Phony moralists show true colors with anti-Adam Lambert group
Pams House blend 9 hours ago
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
This Adam Lambert controversy is ridiculous - that's my take on it.
Report On Catholic Church In Ireland: Godly Perverts Protected At Expense Of Victims
Pams House blend 11 hours agoWell. The Catholic Church spends oodles to defeat marriage equality in Maine, and yet there own record on child abuse.
Q Of The Day: Would You Support ENDA if...?
Pams House blend 16 hours agoThe Advocate is asking the question "Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill?"
As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response:
The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No.
Networks' reactions to Lambert kiss -- 1999 gay-kisser-on-live TV calls BS
Pams House blend 18 hours agoI was waiting for evidence that the networks, particularly CBS with its blurring of Adam Lambert's on-screen kiss of his male bandmate during the post-Children's Hour performance on the American Music Awards.
Double empty-header: Bachmann, Palin to speak at National Tea Party Convention
Pams House blend 19 hours ago
A real laff-fest for you...Rep. Michele "deranged" Bachmann (R-MN) as a featured guest along with Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin at the first National Tea Party Convention can conjure up a lot of jokes, but it's all true, including restricted press access to save them from themselves on camera.
Alice's Restaurant Revisted
Pams House blend 23 hours agoBlame Dawn in Maine for this video- we were just talking about Arlo a few minutes ago on the phone and I mentioned that the first time I ever heard "Alice's Restaurant" was on Thanksgiving Day 1987, as I was driving back from my relative's in Amherst MA to my apartment outside Boston.
S.F. Chronicle: "Pass the stuffing and spare the air"
Pams House blend less than a day agoFrom the San Francisco Chronicle:
Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving, meaning the burning of wood and manufactured fire logs is banned both indoors and outdoors from midnight tonight until midnight Thursday.
The "War on Thanksgiving?"
Pams House blend less than a day agoFrom: http://www.tips-q.com/1638591-war-thanksgiving
This gem is from Christian Newswire:
The war over Thanksgiving as a holiday began when a generation was taught that the holiday's first setting was Pilgrims being saved from starvation by Native Americans.Thanksgiving Day This & That: Open Thread
Pams House blend less than a day agoIt's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread...
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