Slate Editor David Plotz on Motivation, Politics, Ideology, and a 50-Foot-Tall Michelle Obama

Slate editor David Plotz spoke with Betsy Rothstein for a mediabistro.com So What Do You Do Q&A, during which he touched upon how he keeps his writers motivated, where his publication falls ideologically and politically, and why he spent months feeling as if he was being haunted by a 50-foot-high Michelle Obama.

The interview was part of mediabistro.com’s Profit from Your Passion series, with activists representing this week’s focus. Here, Plotz discusses politics and ideology at Slate:

Slate doesn’t have a party line, an ideological platform, or positions on anything.

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