Quote du jour

"The only thing more obvious than the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the legacy media is its breathtaking arrogance."

That's from Roger Kimballs wonderful post-mortem (bad joke, I know) on the de-pantsing of the WaPo scheme to facilitate (I'll eschew the word pimp as Kimball has pointed out how threadbare it has become in reportage of this story) influence within the Whitehouse via a series of "salons". Tres chic no?
Quoth Mr. Kimball...

What can I say? That Katharine Weymouth, publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, was shocked, shocked to discover that her marketing department was selling places to a series of “intimate and exclusive” political salons at her house? Or, rather, was she shocked and dismayed to discover that her marketing department had been discovered selling the spots?

Personally, I have a grudging admiration for the brass of Charles Pelton, the Post executive who came up with the idea. “Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table,” one of his fliers advised.

“Interact with key Obama Administration and Congressional leaders . . . Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No. The relaxed setting in the home of Katharine Weymouth assures it.”

The cost? $25,000 to “sponsor” one event (Maximum of two sponsors per “intimate and exclusive” event). Or get a bulk deal on all eleven: only $250,000 for the lot. The Washington Post, incidentally, lost $19.5 million last quarter.

But besides the airing of all that turpitude, back to the quote du jour. I love Kimball's use of the term 'legacy media' for the jurassic press, it's much better than the 'elite' or 'major' media which used to be in my lexicon. Can't wait to use it.

Update:

From Iowahawk: