The 'Political Insiderdom' of Politico's Mike Allen - is it an Illusion?

NYT’s Mark Leibovich’s magazine cover story on Politico’s Mike Allen is sure to cause a stir here in Washington.

An excerpt:
In Politico parlance, “influence” is less a verb than the root of a noun. Politico’s top editors describe “influentials” (or “compulsives”) as their target audience: elected officials, political operatives, journalists and other political-media functionaries. Since early 2007, Allen’s “data points,” as he calls the items in Playbook, have become the cheat sheet of record for a time-starved city in which the power-and-information hierarchy has been upended.

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