If 'Politico' is so reliable, why not cite Drudge, FAUX, NewsMax, The NYPost, WorldNutDaily?

[devilgrrl]

They're about the same!

I'm so sick of seeing their shit posted here!

[Wetzelbill]

1. don't read it

I don't. It's simple and effective.

Although, I will respond to a thread where it's posted on from time to time.

[SoCalDem]

2. Hey.. C-spam gave them an hour today :)

and that guy who trashed Michael Moore got at least an hour too..

I wrote brian Lamb and asked him to be sure and let us know when Michael Moore's uninterrupted hour would be on:)

[MADem]

3. I am seeing it here a lot, too. Advocates tend to use it if it attacks someone they oppose

What they don't realize is, that if their candidate prevails, that same sick piece of dogshit will be excoriating their favorite in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

[devilgrrl]

4. You can't mention certain sites here but feel free the post BULLSHIT from 'Politico'

Say, perhaps I'll mention the unmentionable!!!!

[BlooInBloo]

6. I'm with ya.

[BlooInBloo]

5. DUers are no better than the general public about avoiding propaganda....

.... I.e., they don't read much.

[KoKo]

7. Are you CRAZY? Maybe you hang around the "wrong crowd" who don't read

but the DU'ers I hang out with ALL READ....and "PAST THE SUBJECT LINE OF A POST!"

[BlooInBloo]

8. If they read much, they'd be annoyed at the DU-news-repeater-bots...

.... if they read much, they wouldn't be posting from Drudgico.... if they read much.... etc.

DUers are only marginally better readers, if at all, than the general public.

[KoKo]

10. You are way "Off Base" with those remarks...maybe another

site would suit you better? Like...where did you come from???

[blondeatlast]

9. They may be considered credible by DU now, but they aren't credible to me

and by damn I will call anyone out for citing them.

[devilgrrl]

11. They aren't credible! And I'll start one of these stupid threads everytime someone posts their SHIT!

:mad:

[KoKo]

15. You refer to the fact that "Bush Bot" Joe Albrighton's Dad is a Bushbot?

That the only reason "Politico" exists is that it's an Internet Friendly version of "Mellon-Scaife"s" lying media at NYT and WaPo? You are talking about the RW Politico (masking as new Venture...but it's just a continuation of MOONEY TIMES and the Rest of the RW RAGS?)...surely you are mistaken. :sarcasm:

[johnfunk]

12. The Politico: hacktacular in every respect, and in FINANCIAL TROUBLE!

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070726_2">July 26, 2007 -- Well-funded "DC insider" publication faces rough times

Washington's Politico and Politico.com, founded with tons of cash from the wealthy Bush friend Robert Allbritton, whose family owned the defunct and scandal-plagued Riggs Bank and the defunct Washington Star, may soon face another defunct enterprise. The "inside Washington" Politico and associated web site were launched on January 23, 2007, amid much fanfare from the corporate media.

Word has it that Politico, the paper edition of which is given away free, is facing financial problems. We have also learned that key staff members have been laid off and that more pink slips may follow.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I thought we debunked "politico" as a RW rag long ago?

Edited to add link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=230720&mesg_id=230720

[MonkeyFunk]

14. Because people use

ANY source, no matter how lousy, if it backs up whatever lame-ass point they want to make.

[KoKo]

16. Might be what you say...but then there are those who POST FACTS and LINKS to REFUTE

CRAP that's posted on Progressive Web Sites.

[MonkeyFunk]

20. of course it should be refuted

I'm just explaining why these sources are acceptable to some people.

However, there are very few sites that aren't allowed here outside of LBN.

For instance, Drudge usually just reports stories other outlets are already reporting. So unless it's a "Drudge exclusive", it's not necessarily a bad source.

[KoKo]

21. Drudge IS and Always Has Been RW Pipeline for Disinformation and LIES!

So if you think you can parse Drudge for "nuggests" that yuo think "might be truthful" then you need to think again. :shrug:

[KoKo]

22. Bush Friend funds "Politico" New Webzine! More here.......

The Politico, financed by Allbritton Communications and based here in suburban Washington in a glassy tower that once housed Gannett, has smoothed the transition for print journalists with handsome salaries, though no one is talking exact figures.

Its publisher, Robert L. Allbritton, 37, scion of the banking and media family that once owned the defunct Washington Star, said in an interview that he would finance The Politico for “the foreseeable future” and has committed to paying for expensive campaign travel. He has hired a staff of about 50 people, almost half of them journalists.

“Newspapers have to be all things to all people,” Mr. Allbritton said. “On the Internet, there is no one site that delivers everything. It’s broken down into mini-mini-subdivisions of interests and they attract people who are passionately interested in one subject.”

Mr. Allbritton also said he has no political agenda and is in the business because it could be profitable; if Google or some other entity eventually wanted to buy it, he said, “that would be great,” but that it is not part of his business plan. (He had briefly considered buying The Hill last year, but declined; the asking price was a reported $40 million.)

He is best known for following his father, Joe L. Allbritton, as chief executive of the Riggs Bank, which was sold in 2004 after a Senate investigation found that Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, had kept millions of dollars in secret accounts at Riggs. Robert Allbritton has been chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, which owns television stations in Washington and a half dozen other markets, since 2001.

He predicted that The Politico would start turning a profit in less than five years, from advertising in all of its incarnations — on the Web, with its own television program and in a limited print edition, with 30,000 copies three days a week while Congress is in session and one day a week when Congress is in recess. The Politico will be free for readers, both online and in print.

It is hoping to attract the kind of advertisers that already pay to be in other publications aimed at Washington — chiefly, political advocacy groups that are trying to influence Congress, as well as local businesses.

One of the few models for what The Politico is trying to do might be Inside.com, a media-oriented Web site that tried to branch into print and conferences. It started in 2000 with venture capital backing and it, too, attracted well-known journalists eager for the promise of riches and fame from the Web. Alas, it vanished almost two years later after the dot
For Journalists, Politics Not as Usual


“We were ahead of our time,” said Kurt Andersen, one of the founders of Inside.com and now a contributing editor at New York magazine. He said The Politico had an advantage because “there is now this huge online ad sales culture.”

“But,” he added, “you wonder, with this narrowly defined, very Washington-centric political focus, no matter how great it is, what is the size of that audience? You can be the best, but if it doesn’t have a gigantic audience, advertisers won’t be interested.”

Mr. Harris, 43, who left his job as political editor of The Post to become editor in chief of The Politico, said the site would distinguish itself with lively writing, scoops, video and behind-the-scenes reporting from the campaign trail. The goal, he said, is not to steal audiences from other publications but for The Politico to become part of their routine as they surf the entire multimedia landscape.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/08/business/media/08washington.html?ex=1185940800&en=4b12f7ca5028d4dc&ei=5070

[librechik]

17. Politico is FoxNews Lite

and not even that lite.

[bryant69]

18. Very good point

I mean Politico is a step above Newsmax or World Net Daily, but it's a pretty tiny step.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Forkboy]

19. I just said basically the same thing in another thread.

I used less words but it was the same idea. :)

[Purveyor]

23. Remember Politico's 'exclusive scoop' that John Edwards was withdrawing from the 2008

presidential race when it was discovered Elizabeth's cancer had returned?

Accurate and credible...indeed!