Comments on: Memo to Katharine Weymouth: Put your salon on the Web http://www.ojr.org/p1758/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=p1758 Focusing on the future of digital journalism Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 38.118.8.60 http://www.ojr.org/p1758/#comment-1977 38.118.8.60 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:50:36 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1758#comment-1977 You miss the point of the Salons. All those people you discuss? No money. What you discuss costs money. Serving the public interest won’t keep Weymouth in the lifestyle she rightfully inherited.

Sheesh.

]]> By: Tom Grubisich http://www.ojr.org/p1758/#comment-1976 Tom Grubisich Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:45:58 +0000 http://www.ojr.org/?p=1758#comment-1976 I should have added a fourth category of missing invitees to Ms. Weymouth’s health care salon — employers, especially small ones who need a tax or some other kind of break to afford offering coverage to employees.

It would be great also to hear from physicians — the ones who practice preventive care (Mayo, etc.) and, on the other side of the cost calculus, MD entrepreneurs who believe their cancer, cardiology and other special (and expensive) service centers mean their patients are offered the best possible care.

Washingtonpost.com could convene these and all the other missing parties to create an action-oriented platform that would achieve a lot more than a dinner party.

Regarding Robert’s suggestions — if an offline conference brought all these parties together, great. But offline or online, there has to be a mechanism to take talk to the action level.

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