State run media sells access

Unbelievable. Read about it at Politico: 

For $25,000 to $250,000, TheWashington Postis offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" —Obamaadministration officials, members of Congress, and thepaper’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."