Weymouth Offers Explanation to WaPo Staff

From: Katharine Weymouth
Sent: 07/02/2009 02:45 PM EDT
Subject: Message from the Publisher

All:

You will have seen this morning a story in Politico and now widely picked up that we were planning a series of salon dinners. A flyer went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flyer would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do.