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Domain name

I was wondering how they got such a convenient domain name. Apparently politico.com has been owned by Irides since September 1998. Irides is owned by Allbritton, the same parent company of Politico. So apparently Allbritton has been planning to launch the site since the dot-com bubble? --Interiot 21:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Right-wing Bias

Quite a few left-wing blogs have accused The Politico of being right-wing for several reasons, added that in there. 67.160.106.255 05:52, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

It absolutely is. With headlines like "Tax returns show Clintons got rich quick," "Extreme Makeover: Pennsylvania edition" "bloomberg candidacy would help dems" OF COURSE there is a clear rightwing bias. Just look at the site. Tallicfan20 (talk) 22:02, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. The site has gone after conservatives too. Just because "a few left-wing blogs" have accused them of being biased doesn't mean anything. Some of them would accuse JFK of being right-wing. Arnabdas (talk) 18:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

The charge of right-wing bias appears warranted. On July 31, 2008 Carrie Budoff Brown published an article at 04:33 AM which says in the title "GOP's celeb-Obama message gains traction." Since the video ad she refers to was released on July 30, 2008, and is critical of Obama it appears it would be impossible to ascertain by 4 o'clock IN THE MORNING of the following day that her assertion was verified by any objective measurement technique known to science. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.15.57.109 (talk) 16:31, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I removed your entry. Poorly written, slanted, et cetera. Misplaced Pages isn't an opinion blog. Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view Muskogee (talk) 01:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree with the above people. Politico seems pretty conservative. Granted, I occasionally see something attacking conservatives, but it seems to have a preponderance of anti-Obama, anti-Democrat type articles. It almost seems like a weak Fox News. In fact, I came to Misplaced Pages to see what, if anything, Misplaced Pages said about it. Squad51 (talk) 13:53, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

As did I. I think the problem is just finding a credible source stating it has a proven or self-proclaimed conservative bias. It's obvious to the casual reader, but as evidenced by Arnabdas' comment, not 100% apparent and therefore seems to require a source. I'll see what I can do. john factorial (talk) 07:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Same here. I became curious when Politico articles started appearing alongside AP and Reuters in my Yahoo newsfeed out of nowhere. I'm not trying to say that AP or Reuters, etc., are without problems, but it made me wonder what kind of clout Politico carries to be able to acquire that kind of exposure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.107.211.229 (talk) 06:44, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I feel that it has no bias really. Specific articles can certainly be left-slanted or right-slanted, but there appears to be no consistent trend. The readership, though, appears to be majority conservative, based on the comments and their daily polls. Metallurgist (talk) 06:22, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree, the editorial policy seems to be about as straight down the middle as possible. The average reader is definitely conservative, but the political cartoons are consistently liberal. I dont think we can apply a specific lef/right bias on this one. --Estrill5766 (talk) 23:13, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

"Middle" today isn't the same as it used to be, look at how Justice Stevens is considered 'liberal' on the Supreme Court. And one editor's perspective of "middle" is another's conservatism. Politico may frame themselves as nonpartisan journalists, but it doesn't ring true. Media watchdogs at The Nation (like Eric Alterman) and Media Matters consistently call them out on conservative bias and misrepresentation. PrBeacon (talk) 08:17, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Ben Smith / Nevada primary debate / cowards

Regarding this series of edits... there was a lot of national coverage of the Edwards mistake, particularly because it was a clear case of journalism moving too fast and on too few sources. It's one of Ben Smith's stories that will probably be remembered for a long time. On the other hand, it's not clear the "coward" entry has gained much attention, or will be remembered in the history books.

If the point of the sentence is to establish that the Politico as a whole leans right, then the paragraph right before accomplishes that far better, since it reviews many different articles, by a cross-section of Politico writers. Selecting a single quote by a single writer that's gotten very little coverage just strikes me as not being very informative about The Politico as a whole. --Interiot 21:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

References

I was editing something in that required citations, I put them in, preview, then save the edits, and then all of a sudden the References list is gone. What gives? Did I do something to cause it? Fifty7 01:27, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Still can't figure this out. I don't want to leave the page like this OR remove what I added, but I don't know how to fix it. Fifty7 01:32, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Whenever the bottom half of the article disappears for me, it's always been a missing </ref>. --Interiot 02:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. Lesson learned. Fifty7 03:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Recentism?

I don't think it's necessarily recentism if the subject is relatively young. Fifty7 16:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

It just appears that we're documenting the daily postings of one journalist, and it's not clear to me what the historical relevance is. --Interiot 16:49, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I would say it's simply updating the criticism section with published criticism of the publication in order to contribute to the information here about the identity of a journalistic entity that is only a little less than three months in the making. Fifty7 17:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Launched?

When was it launched? The article does not mention the date. Soomaali 21:46, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 16:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Criticsm

A lone editor has been removing criticsm without a proper reason. Listing errors and criticsm by others is reasonable for a criticsm section. WP:Consensus, Misplaced Pages:Ownership of articles and Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view may also be in play in this instance. A consensus should be gained before removal and changes made, like fixing the section rather than removing it entirely should be made first. - Mike Beckham (talk) 12:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Intro

The Intro to this is POV, without sources, off topic and very bias. Is this an article about Politico (whose contributers are being featured on CNN,Fox, and MSNBC) or is it about Robert Albritton and The Bush's? This needs an entire rewrite. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.224.233 (talk) 20:29, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. The intro definitely needs a rewrite to remove anything that doesn't directly contribute to the Politico article. Any comments about Albritton or the Saudi's or Bush can be done on those articles76.189.113.184 (talk) 03:13, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Bias

At one of his Press Conferences, Bush specifically asked a Politico representative if they wanted to "introduce" Politico to the rest of the WH press corps. Believe me: Politico is another GOP organ, like the National Review, Weekly Standard, Washington Time, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Fox News, Commentary, Human Events, American Thinker and Lucianne.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.111.40.248 (talk) 07:14, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

The reason Bush was allowing Politico to be introduced was because they had just been started up in 2007. As a new paper, it only seems polite to allow them the opportunity to say hi to everyone else. check your facts before screaming conspiracy. --Estrill5766 (talk) 23:15, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

You're understating the event and overstating the previous comment, #75 didn't say anything about a conspiracy. Or scream. And Bush wasn't merely introducing them. He was virtually endorsing them. Even the editors at Politico admit as much:

Bush's public endorsement made us seem too close to the White House. That was clearly a favor from the president to us (albeit a small one), and felt to me like one of those clubby Beltway moments that make the insiders feel important and the outsiders feel (accurately) like outsiders. politico.com

If you look around it shouldn't be too hard to find secondary sources for Politico's conservative bias. PrBeacon (talk) 08:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Also see previous thread above. -PrBeacon (talk) 06:25, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Alleged liberal bias

An anon has recently been attempting to insert this statement into the article: "However, it has been charged with a liberal bias many times by conservatives."

The problems with this statement are:

• None of the cited sources contain the phrase "liberal bias".
• One of the cited sources is merely a link to every blog post on Newsbusters about Politico. This might be appropriate as an external link, but a claim must be cited to a particular post. It is also a violation of WP:SYNTH to take a bunch of posts and then draw a conclusion from them.
• Even if Newsbusters claims "liberal bias" (which they do not appear to be doing, see point 1), they cannot be used as a stand-in for the views of all or many conservatives.
• Newsbusters is an unreliable source, a publication of the right-wing fringe group Media Research Center.

Gamaliel (talk) 14:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Everything is right wing fringe you to Gamaliel. You allow a link to SALON to show conservative bias. HAHAHA. Give me a break. SALON? Talk about beyond fringe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.6.173.150 (talk • contribs)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would like to remind you not to attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Gamaliel (talk) 20:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

SALON needs to be removed as a usuable source. It has been proven to be an arm piece of the far, radical, left agenda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.6.173.150 (talk) 20:15, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

This is inaccurate and doesn't address the problems with your edit. Gamaliel (talk) 20:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

The statement that MRC is a right wing fringe group, is inaccurate. It is a respected media watchdog group that has been around for decades.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.6.173.150 (talk • contribs)

Even if we accept this statement as true, that doesn't address the other problems with your edit. Gamaliel (talk) 20:19, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

HA!, one your "problems" is that the words liberal bias don't appear. The words liberal bias are obviously implied in the over 20 links given. It is a Institute developed to bring awareness to liberal bias in the news. The words do not need to be written. Your "problems" are all extremely biased and if applied to the Salon article would all fail. I will not be initmidated like Misplaced Pages wants people to be: ie: locking the John Edwards page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.6.173.150 (talk) 20:21, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

"Implied" is not sufficient for Misplaced Pages to use that as a source for an encyclopedia article. Gamaliel (talk) 20:22, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

The Salon page also "implies" it. The words conservative bias are not written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.6.173.150 (talk) 20:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I came to this page to understand the some of the disdainful references I see online to Politico. While it is apparently considered common knowledge among liberal bloggers that they consider Politico biased, there's absolutely no mention of it on the article. At least, I'm guessing that this is the subtext of the references. Shouldn't something that's grown so infamous be noted? 134.84.166.21 (talk) 04:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Move?

wondering whether this should be changed to ---politico--- rather than --the politico--, since that is what appears on their website. Their legal name is still the politico, though. Iowawindow (talk) 17:45, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

It's a bit odd. Seems to me the paper is The Politico (at least in the version reflected in the article), but the web page drops the "The". Whatever we have, we should make sure there is a redirect of the other I would think.--Epeefleche (talk) 01:56, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

they changed the name to "politico" a lonnnng time ago. paper and online. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.18.106.131 (talk) 23:00, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

The website and print edition do not include "The". (Scroll down to the bottom of politico.com's home page; digital copies of the newspaper are accessible.) I guess the infobox needs an updated image of the newspaper's front page. APK whisper in my ear 00:56, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Any movement on this at all? I dont know how to do a vote, although it would seem the consensus is for switching to Politico. Metallurgist (talk) 06:26, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

possible sources

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Page moved to another title. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:29, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

The Politico → Politico — Politico is current name Shortride (talk) 02:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose "Politico" should be a dab page. 65.94.253.16 (talk) 05:02, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose in agreement with the above comment, a dab page should be created. Suggested alternative: Move to Politico (publication).--Polly Ticker (talk) 18:26, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
• Comment Seems to have been resolved by the move to Politico (newspaper). Perhaps the mover would like to complete the move by closing down the Requested Move discussion and listing, in accordance with the guidelines at Misplaced Pages:Requested moves/Closing instructions#Closing the requested move. Skinsmoke (talk) 17:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Criticism

Former John McCain chief of staff and campaign aide Mark Salter has argued that Politico has "taken every worst trend in reporting, every single one of them, and put them on rocket fuel. It’s the shortening of the news cycle. It’s the trivialization of news. It’s the gossipy nature of news. It’s the self-promotion.”.

Ok this was stuck in Content section by an IP, it didnt really fit there so putting it here for now. Somone want to Create a Criticism section or something go for it. i just dont like ip putting ciritical commentary -Unsigned comment by User:Weaponbb7 18:12, 22 April 2010

Separate criticism sections are generally discouraged in favor of working the criticisms into the text. I don't think the article is big enough for a separate section, anyway. The above quote needs some context, perhaps just from the NYT story itself -- I don't know how much clout Salter has in the Republican party or if his opinion about Politico carries much weight. Although I can see how someone might argue that a Republican criticizing Politico could be used to counter the claims of conservative bias, that might also be a stretch. I may take a shot at working it into the text. And while I'm at it, I'd like to move some of the intro detail into the body, the lead is way too long in proportion to the rest of the article. Perhaps renaming the section "Distribution and content" to something else would be appropriate, too. -PrBeacon (talk) 13:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

lead change, or not

1. Leibovich, Mark (2010-04-19) The Man the White House Wakes Up To, The New York Times

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