Comments on: Kaplan Test Prep Still Brokering Meetings with Lobbyists http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:08:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dosido http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197597 dosido Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:06:59 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197597 Newsweek hosting a political event? that sounds just so...foxy! Newsweek hosting a political event? that sounds just so…foxy!

]]> By: orionATL http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197448 orionATL Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:39 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197448 orion @9 i hate it when the damned machine eats my spaces. pac man must be stopped from running on firedoglake. orion @9

i hate it when the damned machine eats my spaces.

pac man must be stopped from running on firedoglake.

]]> By: orionATL http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197444 orionATL Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:23:06 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197444 mary @4 i've been thinking the same. maybe he's just having to get himself back together after having his career destroyed. mary @4

i’ve been thinking the same.

maybe he’s just having to get himself back together after having his career destroyed.

]]> By: orionATL http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197443 orionATL Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197443 am i wrong in recalling that a recent wapo (the corpse, not the newspaper) financial document listed kaplan as wapo corpse's largest source of revenue (25%?> ? no, i wasn't wrong, at least not in direction, but a lot in magnitude. how 'bout these profit numbers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001166.html think the good ship wapoop might be pumping water like mad below deck? which is why they retain petrified columnists broder, will, samuelson, krauthammer, dionnne, cohen, king. they're syndicated! the post is playing monoply and it's stable of dumb-assed columnists are all the newspaper has got left to collect rent with - but then there's kaplan test prep. imagine that, 60% of the post's revenue comes from being paid to teach children how to test more knowledgeable than they are. it's a wonderful corporate-limned society we live in today, and amoral corporations desperate to survive such as wapoop help make it so. am i wrong in recalling that a recent wapo (the corpse, not the newspaper) financial document listed kaplan as wapo corpse’s largest source of revenue (25%?> ?

no, i wasn’t wrong, at least not in direction, but a lot in magnitude.

how ’bout these profit numbers: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001166.html

think the good ship wapoop might be pumping water like mad below deck?

which is why they retain petrified columnists broder, will, samuelson, krauthammer, dionnne, cohen, king.

they’re syndicated!

the post is playing monoply and it’s stable of dumb-assed columnists are all the newspaper has got left to collect rent with -

but then there’s kaplan test prep.

imagine that, 60% of the post’s revenue comes from being paid to teach children how to test more knowledgeable than they are.

it’s a wonderful corporate-limned society we live in today, and amoral corporations desperate to survive such as wapoop help make it so.

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197406 Teddy Partridge Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:00:49 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197406 "I'm shocked, shocked, to discover there's gambling...." Actually, fuck it. No I'm not. I wonder if KO will ask Fineman about this "opportunity" tonight during Countdown. hahahaha “I’m shocked, shocked, to discover there’s gambling….”

Actually, fuck it. No I’m not. I wonder if KO will ask Fineman about this “opportunity” tonight during Countdown.

hahahaha

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197397 emptywheel Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:16:31 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197397 But your fooking Brees didn't disappoint the other night. So I have been dazzled lately, just not by reporters. But your fooking Brees didn’t disappoint the other night. So I have been dazzled lately, just not by reporters.

]]> By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197396 emptywheel Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:16:05 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197396 He is. Saw him last week when in DC> He's trying to get more time to write. He is. Saw him last week when in DC> He’s trying to get more time to write.

]]> By: freepatriot http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197392 freepatriot Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:00:36 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197392 they can't dazzle ew with their brilliance they can't baffle ew with their bullshit I wonder what they're gonna come up with next they can’t dazzle ew with their brilliance

they can’t baffle ew with their bullshit

I wonder what they’re gonna come up with next

]]> By: Mary http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197372 Mary Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:37:36 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197372 Completely ot, but hasn't Froomkin been very quiet since joining huffpo? Is he still with huffpo? Completely ot, but hasn’t Froomkin been very quiet since joining huffpo? Is he still with huffpo?

]]> By: alabama http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/11/04/kaplan-test-prep-still-brokering-meetings-with-lobbyists/#comment-197371 alabama Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:30:32 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/?p=5702#comment-197371 What's a newspaper (or a newsmagazine) without credibility? I think the "stay behinds" at the WaPo and Newsweek have simply given up all hope, and I find that very sad. They're hanging on to their jobs to support their families, and they've come to believe that their only <em>raison d'être</em>is to make money for the boss; if they fail at this, they're fired. My own folks are mostly journalists;somewhat to my surprise, they've been in the business continuously since 1885 (and that's not a typographical error!). They've always had a cardinal rule: when the boss trashes the product, out you go. At one point or another, most have had to act on that rule, and some of them more than once. Not out of some high-minded notion of purity, but out a primitive, or savage, will to survive. No one gets rich on this rule, but then no one has left the field after leaving a paper, either. Man up, oh mighty villagers! What’s a newspaper (or a newsmagazine) without credibility?

I think the “stay behinds” at the WaPo and Newsweek have simply given up all hope, and I find that very sad. They’re hanging on to their jobs to support their families, and they’ve come to believe that their only raison d’êtreis to make money for the boss; if they fail at this, they’re fired.

My own folks are mostly journalists;somewhat to my surprise, they’ve been in the business continuously since 1885 (and that’s not a typographical error!). They’ve always had a cardinal rule: when the boss trashes the product, out you go. At one point or another, most have had to act on that rule, and some of them more than once. Not out of some high-minded notion of purity, but out a primitive, or savage, will to survive. No one gets rich on this rule, but then no one has left the field after leaving a paper, either.

Man up, oh mighty villagers!

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