VandeHarris Punks Politico With 6am Filing Deadline

FBDC hears this internal April Fools email from VandeHarris going around Politico today has reporters “freaking out.”

But after this, can anyone really blame them?

—– Original Message —–
From: John Harris
To:
Sent: Wed Apr 01 11:21:01 2009
Subject: A note from VandeHarris



Gang,

As you know, at POLITICO we live by a “Win the Morning” philosophy. As Jim likes to say, “velocity matters.” On the Web, a gap of even a few minutes in posting breaking news can be the difference between tens of thousands of people reading a story and POLITICO getting credit for an exclusive, and a story simply getting lost in the noise.

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