Any good research on who the hell POLITICO is?? Like a whiff of decay from

[Malikshah]

the corpse of journalism, they have overtaken the message.

1) What the hell are they?

2) Who the hell are they?

3) Why the hell does the MSM worship at their offal altar?

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1. Jim Vandehei

graduated Oshkosh Lourdes HS, 1989, UW Oshkosh with a BA in journalism, went to work for WaPo, then politico, OK water-skier, shitty card player and can't hold his liquor. As to why the MSM loves them so much, Jim is a smarmy bastard that some might find charming I suppose but he doesn't have the academic chops to warrant such adoration

[create.peace]

2. they are on npr sometime as 'experts' or whatever, and are just horrible!nt

[byebyegop]

3. Just go to the site and figure it out.

The owners/managers are right there for all to see.
Staff
Executive
Publisher

* Robert L. Allbritton

President & CEO

* Frederick J. Ryan Jr.


I think they were basically the first new media professional news organization in washington. They have reporters at the presidential news briefs and I think they have a hardcopy newspaper version in Washington as well.

Huffingtonpost is kind of the more left leaning version although that seems a bit debateable these days. The reich is where the money is. Less competition, more vocal support. Liberals can get their reality anywhere. The money is with reich wing hate and lies. Seems Huffpost has realized this and is more than willing to suck a bit of reich wing cock to get their traffic numbers up.

[Hannah Bell]

7. Allbrittons = old money billionaire family & likely intelligence family.

http://www.nndb.com/people/777/000051624/

note: riggs bank, navy, bush/reagan/pinochet


fred ryan jr = reagan connections:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ryan


i wouldn't be surprised if he were some relation to this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fortune_Ryan

[ContinentalOp]

8. It's not like Huffington herself doesn't have pretty deep right wing connections -nt-

[byebyegop]

9. She likes to snipe from the bushes a lot without offering any practical solutions.

She many know a bit about economics but seems quite naive how washington works.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Here you go

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

[FrenchieCat]

5. I had written something about them a while back...

Here it is: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6151571

[Malikshah]

6. Thanks to all who responded-- the ABC link was enough for me... Why folks

suddenly parrot them as if they're much better than the other MSM is beyond me.

IMHO they're about as useful as Drudge.

[byebyegop]

10. Drudge on prozac. n/t