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What the f**k is Politico supposed to be?

post #1 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:12pm
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I loathe it. Where did it come from?
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post #2 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:19pm
It's Drudge for... well, I don't really know who it's intended for, but if you can find it on Politico, chances are it's on Drudge as well.
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post #3 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:19pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politico
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post #4 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:31pm
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It feels very mid-90s dot com boom to me. I know (or knew) one of the writer/editors there and he's a vile scumbag in every sense of the word, but doesn't come cheap. The wiki says the money behind this is Allbritton...

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The Politico is financed by Robert Allbritton, chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, which owns television stations in Washington and elsewhere, and is an affiliate of Disney-owned ABC.
A little digging yielded a deeper look into Politico's funding by Salon's Glenn Greenwald, which pretty much tells the story. Ugh. Here's the link.
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post #5 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:37pm
What's to loathe? In it's content, it's a fairly non-partisan, non-sensationalist site for political news and opinion. Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin are interesting reads on Politico, even if they're not Woodward and Bernstein. Drudge will link to Politico a lot, sure. So will Real Clear Politics, which is the one site besides Chud I visit every single day. For political junkies who can't stand the partisan cheerleading on Daily Kos and Free Republic, Politico is a pretty decent site for keeping up on the ins and outs of the current campaign. I check it out a couple of times a week.
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post #6 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:39pm
You're not fooling anyone, jvc. We know you're really Jeb Bush.

And Frank Cobretti is Karl Rove.
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post #7 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:42pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
You're not fooling anyone, jvc. We know you're really Jeb Bush.

And Frank Cobretti is Karl Rove.
Aw, don't do that to FC. :P
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post #8 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:43pm
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You're not fooling anyone, jvc. We know you're really Jeb Bush.
Thanks Jacob. Coke meet flatscreen.


Politico wants to appear to be non-partisan; however, I have never bought into that assumption. Feels very "Jeb Bush Republican" to me (hence the laughter when I read your comment Jacob).
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post #9 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:43pm
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Originally Posted by jonvoight's car View Post
What's to loathe?
That it feels like the Drudge Report by way of Entertainment Tonight. It adds NOTHING to the discourse. You want objective news, read McClatchy Newswire and the Guardian.
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post #10 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:47pm
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You're not fooling anyone, jvc. We know you're really Jeb Bush.

And Frank Cobretti is Karl Rove.
I think I come out a lot better in your theory than Cobretti. Thanks.

I made my post before reading yt's link. I guess when you track the money behind the site, I can see why those on the left might feel less than charitable towards Politico. I've just never seen any real criticism of the site till I saw this thread. It kind of surprised me a bit because I hadn't seen anything all that bad from the content of the site.
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post #11 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:47pm
Drudge Report often has great links to breaking stories, before anybody knows about them. Very valuable to me.

I don't frequent politico much anymore, but it had great political analysis for the primaries a couple of months ago. Also some of their live updates for things like debates or primary results were pretty informative (and frequently update it). It really has no resemblance to Drudge, since they often generate most of their content vs Drudge which is just a linking site.

The message boards on politico are to be avoided, not as bad as the ones in DailyKos, DU or the freepers, but nothing beyond shouting going on there.
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post #12 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:50pm
yt, your description of Politico is how I will forever describe it to others.
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post #13 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:50pm
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LOL! Frankly, I'd be much more comfortable with FC and JVC in positions of power than any of the Bushes or that no one Karl Rove.

JVC, I've been kind of ignoring it, but it seems to have gotten a little more shrill over the last month or so and I felt the need to find out wtf is going over there.
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post #14 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:52pm
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yt, your description of Politico is how I will forever describe it to others.
LOL. Maybe we should pitch it to them as their new slogan ... ? Why gild the lily?

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Drudge Report often has great links to breaking stories, before anybody knows about them. Very valuable to me.
I check Drudge every day but come on, he wears his biases/obsessions/agendas pretty much on his sleeve.
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post #15 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:52pm
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That it feels like the Drudge Report by way of Entertainment Tonight. It adds NOTHING to the discourse. You want objective news, read McClatchy Newswire and the Guardian.
I see where you're coming from. When a site has the goal of always reporting something new to keep traffic coming to the site and politics is all they report, some of what they report has a gossipy not-really-newsworthy feel to it. I would never use the site as my hard news source. If I do see some item of interesting news there, I will usually pop over to a couple of the more traditional sites to see how they are reporting it. But there is some decent analysis on Politico and interesting stories that don't get picked up by a lot of the traditional hard news sites.
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post #16 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by jonvoight's car View Post
I see where you're coming from. When a site has the goal of always reporting something new to keep traffic coming to the site and politics is all they report, some of what they report has a gossipy not-really-newsworthy feel to it. I would never use the site as my hard news source. If I do see some item of interesting news there, I will usually pop over to a couple of the more traditional sites to see how they are reporting it. But there is some decent analysis on Politico and interesting stories that don't get picked up by a lot of the traditional hard news sites.
Fair enough, but I don't think it can be trusted. Watch your step, jvc.
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post #17 of 21
6/18/08 at 3:57pm
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JVC, I've been kind of ignoring it, but it seems to have gotten a little more shrill over the last month or so and I felt the need to find out wtf is going over there.
Like I said, I haven't really read the site for quite a while. Earlier while I was in India, for some reason I found it to be a great way to keep up with what was going on back in the US (it was around Super Tuesday).

The site seemed fine, and the boards had a good mix of Rep/Dems and Ron Paul supporters.

Are you reacting more to this story (among others)?

"Muslims barred from picture at Obama event"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11168.html
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post #18 of 21
6/18/08 at 5:25pm
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Not that top story (because let's face it, whether or not Obama cleared someone in a headscarf out of a picture is VASTLY more important and newsworthy than a car bomb that killed 60 people in Baghdad, the administration foisting torture on the military or the oil companies' land grab), it's been a slow build. Every time I have been directed to a story there, before I even know what I'm reading I'm like "what the f**k is this shit?" and then I see it's Politico.
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post #19 of 21
6/18/08 at 5:29pm
If you just see it as a site for political junkies and not a source for hard news, it's not so bad. Politico focuses more on the horse race aspects of politics (perceptions, how things will play, etc.), not hardcore policy analysis.
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post #20 of 21
6/18/08 at 7:03pm
I lived and worked in DC during the time of Politico's creation and you could easily pick up a free copy in one of the kiosks off of the metro.

It's supposed to be the non-political junkie version of Roll Call (which is the political junkie newspaper for Capitol Hill along with the Hill newspaper).
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post #21 of 21
6/25/08 at 3:08pm
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LAFF: Why Did a Reporter for Politico Bring Republican Operatives to a Screening of BOOGIE MAN
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