Apparently the Kaplan subsidies just aren’t enough, and the Washington Post feels it must sell access to the very people its editorial team scolds in print. (Question: Why is it OK for the WaPo to sell $25,000 shindigs promising access to Administration personnel, yet it’s not OK, as the WaPo’s Dana Milbank and friends will tell you heatedly, for President Obama to invite Huffington Post journalist Nico Pitney, the best reporter on the Iranian elections crisis, to ask him a question on that subject? But I digress.)
You know, there’s a much more honorable way for the Post to pay its bills — a way that was just created by the recent jihad against Craigslist’s "erotic services" ads category. Already, alternative weekly papers that were reeling are now seeing the rush of ad revenue as a direct result thereof:
The [Washington City] paper reports its own sales of adult ads was up 38 percent in the first week of May as criticism against Craigslist was heating up, compared to the same time last year. Minneapolis’ City Pages says its adult ad sales have almost doubled. And SF Weekly in San Francisco had 160 adult ads the week before Craigslist’s policy went into affect but clocked in with 910 ads last week.
This despite the fact that these ads in print media still cost much more than does an ad in Craigslist’s new adult ads category. Then again, Craigslist’s ads now face much tighter restrictions than do similar print-media ads, as Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster points out.
WaPo, your moral and financial salvation awaits you. All you need do is open the door to adult ads. You won’t even need to wear smoking jackets to do it.
Then again, the persons in the erotic services industry may well feel insulted at seeing their ads running in your sleazy rag.
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yee-ouch!
WaPoo keeps plumbing new lows. My imagination is not rich enough to anticipate what they’ll do next. And I suppose its behavior is indicative of that of the Villagers more widely.
I wouldn’t have thought the erotic services people would need to advertise on Craigslist – but I live in one of those areas with an alternative-news weekly that seems to have only three kinds of ads (the other two are music and cosmetic surgery).
But I digress.
I love digressy stuff – it’s one of my best things.
me too! oh wait this isn’t Pull Up a Chair and we aren’t talking about BBQ ribs anymore.
re the WaPo power parties:
As I said the other day, one could look at it as a good news/bad news kind of thing.
Bad news = bribery is still alive and well, and making Washington run.
Good news = Transparency !!
*s* I get so tired of people asking me for recipes.
heh.
All you need do is open the door to adult ads.
Are those in the “Help Wanted” section?
I happen to know you use your oven to store your papers. *g*
O, me too. But there is never a 2nd request…for sure.
The term “smoking jacket” strikes me as sleazy on so many levels. It trips me out how much tobacco used to be a part of our culture. Smoking jacket, smoking section, smoking hot… ok, not that one, but you get my drift. I think it’s really good people are now more aware of just how horrible it is, although I’m not sure why inhaling smoke into one’s lungs wouldn’t be indication enough on its own that it’s bad for you.
But I digressed…
We really should legalize weed and prostitution. Adult ads is a great idea. Imagine if newspapers ran weed ads too: “We’ve got northern lights and it’s priced to sell. Come on down and get your high high weed for a low low price, at Jim’s Weed Emporium. Free escort with every purchase of an ounce or more!” My high school memories would be a lot different.
Attention all treehuggers, we need to start a blog on the newspapers that are a total waste of trees and be shut down for wasting a declining resource.
I nominate the Washington Post first in the class of first class shit published by whores.
Every part of my post was self contradictory. But if you’re gonna smoke, weed gives an exponentially larger buzz to carcinogen ratio. I’m so stoned right now… LOL. K then [mosies out quietly].
The WaPo is well on it’s way to morphing into nothing more than a local community publication. They have created their own black hole that is consuming them. They are past the event horizon and will not be able to pull themselves out.
S’okay. I suspect that I sound stoned much of the time. At least you have a valid excuse….
Jeff Gannon may finally get his byline in a national newspaper.
-G
LOL. So much easier to place ads for one’s ” services” at the place one works – either writing or hooking.
It’s Gloria’s Birthday
hey, if ovens weren’t meant for storing files, why do they come with separate racks for “open files” and “closed files”?
LOL!
if only I could confine my paper monster to the oven.
they also have an interesting “shredding” feature….
For whatever reason, $25K seems to be the standard rate for graft in the media-industrial complex.
That’s the same amount that Conrad Black’s manwhore received for giving Black’s horrible biography of FDR
a two thumbs up.
And of course George Will was never held accountable for his misdeed.
Because accountability is for little people.
PW the invite to the lobbyists that was an adult ad the WP was whoring itself out as an escort.
Even worse than that. A High school paper published just for the Kewl Kids.
Have you met Dr Kirk Murphy I think you two will get along fine.
What did George Will do now I can never hear enough bad about him.
I wonder if little Howie “Gossip DC” Kurtz will feature this story in one of his segments on Unreliable Sources tomorrow?
Since Howie is a WaPo columnist, I suspect he will overlook this important story, or make sure he has an ally on his panel tomorrow to minimize or dismiss is as nothing special…
Howie is such a pathetic tool…his ganging up with Milbank on Pitney last weekend just made me sick.
And he thinks he is one of the wittiest guys in DC! He’s half-way there anyway…