According to Politico...

[spanone]

i see this all the time.....who is politico? they are on teevee, quoted in all the major papers...

in existence for three years....

Robert Allbritton, a noted conservative CEO, is chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, which owns television stations in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, all affiliated with the Disney-owned ABC network. He is also the owner and founder of the Capitol Hill newspaper Politico, and was CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Naional Bank, from 2001 to 2005.<3> Allbritton graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992.

About Us
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Staff
Executive

Publisher
Robert L. Allbritton
President & CEO
Frederick J. Ryan Jr.
Chief Operating Officer
Kim Kingsley
Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
John F. Harris
Executive Editor
Jim VandeHei

[Oceansaway]

1. Politico=Human Waste.....nt

[underpants]

17. Politico is a conduit to and for the MSM of the Drudge report....nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. I'd like to know how they go from non-existant to the MSM go to...

people for political info in a matter of weeks. Then again, maybe I do know.

[emulatorloo]

3. Wikipedia has a decent article. Who is Politico = Big Money Right Wingers

[disillusioned73]

4. Corporate interests always get a seat "at the table"....

I can't believe I was a frequent visotor to that site back in '08. It got old trying to have a discussion with the growing majority of teabaggers that invaded that site..... it was a harbinger of what was to come from the rest of the MSM, sadly.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Think of this organization as a coop for catapulting propaganda

They have 'staff members' speaking multiple times a day in the role of news source to media outlets. You hear these sound bites and full interviews with their staff telling us what to think and what to believe. They maintain a veneer of impartiality to allow them to appear non-partisan. But when the need is there to underpin the right, there they are. All in.

While they're owned by a single right wing organization, their purpose is news source for everyone. A fully controlled and right wing scripted replacement for Reuters, UPI, AP, etc.

MSNBC is run the same way with their veneer of a left wing bent. The night time lineup is not unlike bait to allow the station to retain its veneer of left wing bonafides. The editorial content, however, while allowing lots of red meat caterwauling, shuts down even their vaunted and beloved night time noise makers when the story is critical. People marvel at how Olbermann or Maddow "tell it like it is". And they do. When they are, in fact, allowed to tell it.

Lots of people here don't like ti that I see MSNBC as worse than Fox, but I do. We all know waht Fox is. Not all of us have accepted that MSNBC is its false mirror.

[spanone]

6. i'm with you stinky....m$nbc leans way heavy on politico

what 'liberal' leaning station would start the morning with joe scarborough?

[blondeatlast]

8. The LW veneer on M$NBC is where the danger lies. And yes, Politico does the same damn thing,

it's just that they've blown their cover to some degree.

DUers (and others) would be wise to cast a questioning eye to M$NBC.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. You're exactly right.

[Spazito]

7. Yep, it is Talon News updated...

Same shit, same agenda.

[blondeatlast]

10. Anyone who touts Politico as a "reliable" source on this site is worthy of derision. I don't happen

to care if that offends some sensibilities here. It's a well-known RW rag that somehow--and damn if I know how--has a veil of M$M respectability (in itself a laugher).

Even when they are right about a story, there is no objectivity whatsoever in the way it is reported. And that, DUers, is where the poison lies.

[City Lights]

11. Their President & CEO currently serves as the COTB of trustees for the Reagan

Presidential Foundation.

From Wiki:

Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. (also known as Fred Ryan, born April 12, 1955) was the post-Chief of Staff for former United States President Ronald Reagan (1989–1995), and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He is also the vice-chairman of Allbritton Communications Company and President and CEO of Politico.com.

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

Politico=RW corporate hacks. :puke:

[Uncle Joe]

12. The corporate media's credibility with the American People had turned to fecal material and they

knew it.

The corporate media; saw the near instant, mass, two way communication, of the Internet as a threat to their ability to brainwash the American People on a number of corporate supremacist issues.

The corporate media; not wanting to lose their ability to persuade, influence and brainwash the people to the democratic forum of the Internet decided to plant and/or use a surreptitious piece of the corporate media; with the cover of being the Internet in order to distort Internet reality to their traditional 20th century television viewers.

Politico; is the corporate media's attempt at co-opting and/or diminishing the populist/progressive message; of the Internet into a more corporate centric one.

Basically the corporate media is just pouring cheap wine; which everyone has come to hate into an expensive bottle in order to sell it.

Thanks for the thread, spanone.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. The studied use of "uh"

I know this is deep in the weeds, but stay alert for speakers who use an "intellectual sounding 'uh'" when they speak. At first - and always, to the more casual observer - the use of "uh" seems normal and harmless. Among Politico's talkers, it seems a studied affectation. They use it when spinning instead of reporting. It makes them appear to be intellectually honest as they search for the facts and exactly correct words to convey them or when they're asked to comment on facts and appear to be looking for the best way to state "meaning" in a nonpartisan way.

Next time you observe this behavior with one of their talking heads, consider its correlation to the implication of what they just said.

It serves the sole purpose of them appearing honest as they lie, it is a common trait among all their talkers, and it happens in a very obvious pattern . . . . when you pay close attention.

[blondeatlast]

14. Interesting. I've always noticed a Frank Luntzian affectation to their speech but

could not put my finger on it. I'm going to pay even more attention; I bet that isn't the only tell, either.

There's also a "lean" that comes BEFORE the talking point; most people would do it just as they are making their point. I know that lean--it's no accident, it's studied; lawyers do it a lot. I've even seen baby lawyers practice it.

I'm going to watch more closely now.

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. You mean like uh... Robert... uh... Gibbs? n/t

[malaise]

15. Fugging hacks

DUers have been exposing them since 2008