Romenesko

Politico.com
Mike Allen reports the Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" -- WH officials, members of Congress, and Post reporters and editors -- for $25,000 to $250,000. The offer, writes Allen, "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."