Ms. Weymouth should have brought Governor Sanford in so he could have done a better job.
Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 6:59 AMWASHINGTON — The Washington Post’s publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper’s journalists.
A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor one of a series of dinner parties that would include off-the-record conversations with Post journalists and access to Washington insiders. The series was canceled Thursday.
“I want to apologize for a planned new venture that went off track and for any cause we may have given you to doubt our independence and integrity,” Publisher Katharine Weymouth said in a letter that appeared in the newspaper’s op-ed section Sunday.
Weymouth said the flier wasn’t approved by her or the paper’s editors, and that it didn’t accurately describe the plan for the small gatherings.
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