Interesting article about Politico website in Vanity Fair

[AnnInLa]

The beltway talks to the beltway

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/wolff200908?printable=true¤tPage=all

[depakid]

1. Hey! a politco deal that I'll actually read!

[BlooInBloo]

2. What's interesting is that one can write 3,500 words about the Politico's origins...

without mentioning their Drudge connections.

That's fascinating.


Example: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/27/politico/

Lots of examples: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=greenwald+drudge+politico+site%3Asalon.com&num=100&cts=1247957931905&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

[AnnInLa]

3. you're absolutely correct, and yet

I wonder if Politico has contributed to the eventual demise of drudge? (hopefully)

[Gabi Hayes]

4. beat me to the punch with the greenwald

when's the last time you saw him on TV, as compared to the myriad politico shills, who are on every single day on MSNBC/CNN

I'm almost as sick of that smarmy Roger Simon as I am of Buchanan

and did you read Greenwald's book on the Great Hypocrites, or whatever it was called? he has a great section on the coverage of 'the haircut,' including Simon's columns on it, and the questions asked of Edwards about said haircut during the dem debates by Limbaugh lover Brian Williams


http://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Hypocrites-Toppling-Republican/dp/0307408027#

[maglatinavi]

5. politico

drudge connection??? how come ???

[FrenchieCat]

6. Politico is everywhere, and that's not a good thing.

I see them being quoted and cited here each and everyday.

[pnorman]

7. I found this excerpt interesting:

"CNN changed the nature of politics and political reporting by compressing the time it took for something to happen, for it to become widely known, and for newsmakers and the public to react to it (i.e., the news cycle) to half a day—whereas the newspaper news cycle, from next-day publication to day-after reaction, was 48 hours, and network television’s news cycle, from one day’s evening news to the next day’s evening news, was 24 hours. Politico brings the news cycle down to about 15 or 20 minutes."

pnorman