The success of the Politico has some in the press corps griping.

From TNR

Politico‘s pace and self-promotion has irritated some in the Washington press corps. “It’s maddening. Everyone has to chase them,” one Washington reporter complains. “You wind up running down these gotcha moments that are painful. … [I]t’s the New York Post approach to generating news.” After Martin’s confrontation with Obama last month, Wonkette called Politico a “vulgar asshole of a publication” and announced the blog would cease linking to the site. “We will stop linking to these particularly retarded, trollish articles Politico front-pages just to get a crappy two-minute panel slot on [Anderson Cooper] 360 later in the night.”

The Times‘ Bill Keller dismisses Politico‘s scooplets as an insubstantial foundation on which to build a sustainable news organization. “If you hadn’t reminded me, I couldn’t have told you who broke the seven houses and the six-figure wardrobe budget. … Politico has focused on an inside game. I’m not sure if it translates to an outside game. I’m not sure how they get scale, and, if they don’t, I’m not sure what the business model is.”

According to FishbowlNY a Lexis search showed that Keller’s paper cited the Politico over 200 times since February 2007.  Selective memory or outright hypocrisy? 

 

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