Who is Katharine Weymouth and why is she selling access to the Washington Post and the Obama Administration?

Well, for one thing, she's the granddaughter of Katharine Graham. The Grahams own a controlling stake in the Washington Post, and although it is a publicly traded company, the Post, like the NY Times, it is firmly under the control of a single family and leadership is handed down in the same "democratic" meritocratic way that it's done in North Korea.

It's the MSM way.

Weymouth joined the newspaper in 1996 as assistant counsel. After two years she and transferred to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive as associate counsel. Two years after that, she returned to the newspaper and was the advertising department's liaison between The Post and WPNI. She was named director of advertising sales in April 2004.

In her new post, Weymouth will report to [Donald] Graham, who was careful to say she didn't get her post because of her relation to the family.

That Graham, what a great kidder!

"Katharine is ready for this," Graham said in a statement. "She is Kay Graham's granddaughter, but that is not why she's getting this job. She's had a rare combination of big jobs at both the newspaper and the digital company. In all those jobs, she has shown herself to be smart, decisive, modest and a great manager of people."

And she has some really creative ideas on raising money!

It's purely an accident that she's a member of the family. No one, not one single person was found in all the world who was better suited for this job than her.

And if you're wondering who arranged for the marketing department to sell access, note please that ...

Weymouth has been vice president of advertising for The Washington Post since January 2005.

Smart, decisive, modest ... not!