Under The Influence: In Defense Of The K Street Lobbyist http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2009 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification In Defense Of The K Street Lobbyist 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."

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