Comments on: The New(s) Access Brokers: So Much for the “Impartial Center”

By: Rayne

Rayne — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:02 +0000

Haven’t looked but I wonder what health care-related holdings Berkshire Hathaway currently possesses, and whether those holdings are up/down/flat…

Were they expecting to recoup losses in value of B-H with their lobbying-via-newspaper efforts?

Speaking of lobbying, I wonder what constitutes lobbying effort which must be reported to the U.S. Senate?

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:06:54 +0000

“We’re not going to do any dinners that would impugn the integrity of the newsroom”

As Perry Mason would say: this assumes a fact not in evidence.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:12 +0000

Berkshire Hathaway’s 13F, filed 5/31 for the first quarter of 2009, shows Berkshire Hathaway continuing to hold 1,727,765 shares of WPO [Washington Post stock].

The number of shares is unchanged from 12/31/08, but the value of those shares has dropped: from approx. $420/share on 12/31 to $343/share now.

Also, a year ago WPO was @ 650/share. In November 07, it was @ $850.

I wish Warren didn’t have such “fond memories” of Katherine Graham and was thinking with his head, rather than his . . . . well, head.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:09:27 +0000

Which members of Congress and the Administration have agreed to participate?

My first guess would be Rahm & Holy Joe.

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:04:23 +0000

EW “In other words, what is clear from this is that the WaPo doesn’t give a shit about neutrality, they care only about an illusion of “objectivity.”

Has it really ever been any different at the WaPo? Oh yeah we know Woodward and Bernstein, Woodward and Bernstein.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:22:23 +0000

Charles Kaiser also has an excellent take down of Weymouth’s decision and its meaning for her newspaper:

The decision by the Post’s publisher to sell access to government officials was the latest–and by far, the most horrific–in a series of disastrous decisions in the last two weeks which, taken together, have destroyed what was once one of the proudest finest brands in American journalism.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:07:01 +0000

Thanks Mad Dog. That’s what I was wondering about yesterday – it’s pretty damn disingenuous to wheedle extensions out of the other side that are presented as consent extensions and then go back to the court and allege you are asking for your first extension. I was thinking that there was no way the ACLU was consenting again after bending over backwards for gov earlier.

Then to top if off by asking for the extension on the due date and not even making an effort to get it on Monday – pretty dismissive of the court.

By: Frank33

Frank33 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:05:00 +0000

I agree with Taibbi that GS deliberately wrecked the economy, including

the oil price run-up last summer, when oil shot up to $140 a barrel, likely helping tilt the entire world into recession; and what Taibbi describes as “rigging the bailout,” when Goldman Sachs’ well-placed alumni inside the U.S. government engineered last fall’s bank bailout in such a way that the company profited massively.

The WaPo also covers up for the Bilderbergers, international globalists and bankers who secretly meet yearly. This year they are preparing a world wide depression. Unfortunately, Obama Administration officials are collaborating with them. We will get one of two choices of economic depression. One choice is definitely The New World Order. Less national soverignty makes it easier for global domination by multinational corprations.

“a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:57:42 +0000

Continuing in the humor vein:

http://tinyurl.com/nb4r49

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:51:29 +0000

Sounds like some folks are broke. Since this attempt has failed (if we can believe what they’re saying now), wonder what they’ll do to get the big bucks they so badly need.