Since this is a blog on lobbying, I thought readers might be interested in a posting today defending K Street by author Andrew Keen in the publication The Daily Beast.
"The inconvenient truth is that lobbies are purely a mirror of our own interests," says Keen, a writer from Berkeley, Calif. who authored a book called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. "So when Americans say they hate lobbyists, what they are really saying is they hate themselves."
Read more here.
-- Bara Vaida
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