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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Ben Smith / Nevada primary debate / cowards

Regarding this series of edits... there was a lot of national coverage of the Edwards mistake,[1][2] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Launched?

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

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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)

[edit] 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, Wikipedia:Ownership of articles and Wikipedia: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)

[edit] 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)