politico
Your Wonkette was impressed with Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s eloquence on an episode of The Daily Show last week, where he was discussing the need for society to decide whether it wants to keep paying fine journalists the good salaries they deserve, or let the whole enterprise crater. And Newsweek does employ some of the [...]
Oh ho ho! We won’t ask for details. What are the details, though?? Did the Jonas Brothers get access to Mike Allen’s top secret masturbatorium and underground network of slave-operated Sugar Caves? [Twitter]
Good morning! Let’s start the day with a look at the ol’ POLITICO top stories e-mail… oh dear sweet jesus god.
In its latest attempt to draw readers into fatal traps of anti-information, the Washington Post has redesigned or relocated or re-aggregated or whatever its political coverage into this new thing, PostPolitics.com, which is maybe the same thing as THE POLITICO.
We’re now about eight nine pages into this very long NYT magazine thing about The Politico, and it’s mostly the stuff you know about — the funny cartoon video somebody made, all the reporters who quit, etc. But there’s one crucial bit of Win the Morning hilarity we must share with you, as it succinctly [...]
We’re going to admit something here, before the New York Times Magazine news article about Washington webzine sweatshop “The Politico” changes the very nature of Time/Space: We do not read Mike Allen’s daily email, and we don’t look at the Politico unless we absolutely have to — like, say, when a hundred readers keep sending [...]
The POLITICO did something fun and funny today: they asked John McCain to elaborate on his famous recent assertion, “I never considered myself a maverick.” How would John McCain react? Would he get Visibly Irritated? (This has nothing to do with the video above. Sometimes your Wonkette just likes to revisit Actual Pinnacles of Comedy, [...]
BLEEDIN’ POLITICO LOSES ANOTHER REPORTER: What is this, six in the past couple of weeks? Nia-Malika Henderson is also leaving the POLITICO hellsquad operation for the Washington Post. Who will be the new POLITICO black person? Hard to bet against Kenneth Gladney. [FishbowlDC]
FIFTH REPORTER FLEES POLITICO IN SINGLE WEEK! Fishbowl DC says congressional reporter Lisa Lerer is going to Bloomberg, which also hired away her colleague Patrick O’Conner. Michael Calderone is off to the new Yahoo blog (Gawker guy John Cook too!), Pia Catton goes to the Wall Street Journal, Victoria McGrane to the Dow Jones wire [...]
Or is that story still several weeks away? It’s hard to tell what this ten-Internet-page article about queer fur-ducks & bunnies is an allegory for. Let’s go with “Mike Allen and Dick Cheney.” [NYT Magazine]
THE SAGA OF MIKE ALLEN, COMING SOON: DIRTY DIRTY SECRETS are on the way from the very important New York Times Magazine, and its excellent Mark Leibovich: “Politico scribes are buzzing about an upcoming NYT magazine piece by Mark Leibovich. Leibovich has interviewed many reporters at Politico for what is expected to be a lengthy [...]
In the future, the default 404 Error page will look like this. [The Awl]
POLITICO MEMO: HOW RAD ARE WE? WE’RE THIS RAD: “VandeHarris” — yes, the two kings of THE POLITICO do self-apply that nickname — have sent out a tubular faptastic memo to congratulate their staff for THE POLITICO’S accumulated CONSTANT WINS and uber-pwnage of motherfucking everything. *Air guitar solo!* A selection: “Gang, There is nothing we [...]
The greatest political satire of the decade — this funny animated movie about the Politico — appeared yesterday on some Web 2.6 internet website we’d never heard of before. So, being Washington journalists who WIN THE MOTHERFUCKING MORNING, we tracked down the writer and director, a “Peter Smith,” if that is his real name. And [...]
WHOEVER MADE THIS IS A GENIUS. [Xtranormal via The Awl]
