The problem with Politico is the top editors can’t make up their damn minds.
Politico: Where stories about leasing conflicts become headline news.
Politico is … it’s like ‘Who won the day?’ kind of thing, right? They’re trying to cover it like it’s sports, but not in an intelligent way at all, right? And they want to create noise, basically, right? Their whole thing is, you have to have a lead story about some gaffe that some candidate made on the campaign trail.Nate Silver • Taking down Politico, which attempted a takedown of Silver just before the election, during an interview with ESPN’s Bill Simmons. Silver, who suffered a pretty solid rip at the hand of Dylan Byers just before the election, now won’t give Byers, who wants an interview with the FiveThirtyEight founder, the time of day. Silver, by the way, knows a thing or two about sports — he spent years devising a baseball-statistics system before moving into politics.
I’m thankful that Paula Broadwell doesn’t have my personal email address, that Marco Rubio wasn’t my science teacher, and that neither Todd Akin nor Richard Mourdock is my ob-gyn.Arianna Huffington • Telling Politico what she’s thankful for on this holiday. There were others, but none nearly quite as awesome as this entry.
Harry Reid’s car crash, as discussed by the commenters of Politico and The Blaze. (He’s OK.)
Good Work, Politico, for not missing the night’s biggest story. *eyeroll*
Poll: Majority oppose New York City soda ban
It appears a majority of Americans aren’t too sweet on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed soda ban.
Key line: “About seven in 10, or 71 percent, say they don’t believe that limiting soda cup sizes will actually have an impact on obesity rates.” For comparison’s sake, would like to see a formal poll on the Disney thing. This non-scientific poll is mostly in favor of Disney’s ad policy changes.
Mitt Romney’s greatest refusals to apologize: “American Greatness” apparently also means just flat-out verbally refusing to say you’re sorry. We get it, Romney. You’re not going to $@#&ing apologize for anything, to the point where you’ll call your book “No Apology.”
Spotted: Politico is using the data from this report, which shows that it literally has a perfect balance between Democratic and Republican voters among its readership, to advertise itself. (The ad links to this story.) Because, you know, it’s better than promoting the fact that it has some of the nastiest comment threads on the entire internet.
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According to ComScore, Democrats are more likely than their Republican brethren to read Talking Points Memo and The Daily Kos — sites which have an unabashed progressive stance on the issues of the day. Meanwhile, GOP readers make up more of an audience for Drudge Report and Breitbart.com — both considered more conservative outlets.
The news site with the most bipartisan audience? That honor belongs to Politico, which was launched in 2007 by two former journalists from The Washington Post.
And yet, for all its partisanship, Kos has the largest percentage of independent readers.
(via Democrats are From TPM, Republicans are From Drudge [REPORT])
Note how perfectly balanced Politico is.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3bwi9lsFL1qg1nf3o1_500.png)
According to ComScore, Democrats are more likely than their Republican brethren to read Talking Points Memo and The Daily Kos — sites which have an unabashed progressive stance on the issues of the day. Meanwhile, GOP readers make up more of an audience for Drudge Report and Breitbart.com — both considered more conservative outlets.
The news site with the most bipartisan audience? That honor belongs to Politico, which was launched in 2007 by two former journalists from The Washington Post.
And yet, for all its partisanship, Kos has the largest percentage of independent readers.
(via Democrats are From TPM, Republicans are From Drudge [REPORT])
Note how perfectly balanced Politico is.
HuffPo won a Pulitzer! And so did Politico! 2011 may become a watershed year for online journalism, as for-profit online news organizations finally took a bite out of the news industry’s most prestigious prize. The Huffington Post, known as the kings of aggregation, won for a fairly traditional piece for them — reporter David Wood’s ten-part story discussing the struggles of returning veterans. (Wood is shown above, trying to open up a Nattie Light, which clearly is the only beer HuffPo had on hand to celebrate his feat.) Politico, on the other hand, won for Matt Wuerker’s mad editorial cartooning skillz. The wins tell the journalism world what many already knew — the folks on the Web are at the same level as traditional newspapers. Anyway, here’s a round-up of a few newspaper winners of note:
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If you think Politico commenters could find nothing to get angry about in regards to the Trayvon Martin story, you’d be wrong. HyperVocal has some pretty shocking lowlights.