You folks remember Journolist, right? You know, the Listserv group of journalists, pundits and “opinion makers” what got busted going all in for Barack Obama back in 2008, and how they worked so hard to shape opinion for their favored Democrat candidate for president? They did a bang-up job with that piece 'o work, eh? Anyway, it seems Politico.com, the “news source” currently trying to do a hatchet job on Herman Cain, conservative black Republican and presidential candidate, now employs a number of them. Here’s the full Journolist, with Politico.com “journalists” bolded:
- Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, TheAmerican Prospect
- Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal
- Ben Adler - Newsweek,** POLITICO **
- Mike Allen - **POLITICO **
- Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America
- Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
- Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation
- Ryan Avent - Economist
- Dean Baker - The American Prospect
- Nick Baumann - Mother Jones
- Josh Bearman - LA Weekly
- Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report
- Ari Berman - The Nation
- Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute
- Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
- Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium
- Lindsay Beyerstein - Freelance journalist
- Joel Bleifuss - In These Times
- John Blevins - South Texas College of Law
- Sam Boyd - The American Prospect
- Ben Brandzel - MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign
- Shannon Brownlee - Author, New America Foundation
- Will Bunch - Philadelphia Daily News
- Rich Byrne - Playwright
- Jonathan Chait - The New Republic
- Lakshmi Chaudry - In These Times
- Isaac Chotiner - The New Republic
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
- Michael Cohen - New America Foundation
- Jonathan Cohn - The New Republic
- Joe Conason - The New York Observer
- Lark Corbeil - Public News Service
- David Corn - Mother Jones
- Daniel Davies - The Guardian
- David Dayen - FireDogLake
- Brad DeLong - The Economists’ Voice, University of California at Berkeley
- Ryan Donmoyer - Bloomberg News
- Adam Doster - In These Times
- Kevin Drum - Washington Monthly
- Matt Duss - Center for American Progress
- Gerald Dworkin - UC Davis
- Eve Fairbanks - The New Republic
- Henry Farrell - George Washington University
- Tim Fernholz - American Prospect
- Dan Froomkin - Huffington Post, Washington Post
- Jason Furman - Brookings Institution
- James Galbraith - University of Texas at Austin
- Kathleen Geier - Talking Points Memo
- Todd Gitlin - Columbia University
- Ilan Goldenberg - National Security Network
- Arthur Goldhammer - Harvard University
- Dana Goldstein - The Daily Beast
- Andrew Golis - Talking Points Memo
- Jaana Goodrich - Blogger
- Merrill Goozner - Chicago Tribune
- David Greenberg - Slate
- Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films
- Chris Hayes - The Nation
- Don Hazen - Alternet
- Jeet Heer - Canadian Journolist
- Jeff Hauser - Political Action Committee, Dennis Shulman Campaign
- Michael Hirsh - Newsweek
- James Johnson - University of Rochester
- John Judis - The New Republic, The American Prospect
- Foster Kamer - The Village Voice
- Michael Kazin - Georgetown University
- Ed Kilgore - Democratic Strategist
- Richard Kim - The Nation
- Charlie Kireker - Air America Media
- Mark Kleiman - UCLA The Reality Based Community
- Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
- Joe Klein - TIME
- Robert Kuttner - American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute
- Paul Krugman - The New York Times, Princeton University
- Lisa Lerer -** POLITICO **
- Daniel Levy - Century Foundation
- Ralph Luker - Cliopatria
- Annie Lowrey - Washington Independent
- Robert Mackey - New York Times
- Mike Madden - Salon
- Maggie Mahar - The Century Foundation
- Dylan Matthews - Harvard University
- Alec McGillis - Washington Post
- Scott McLemee - Inside Higher Ed
- Sara Mead - New America Foundation
- Ari Melber - The Nation
- David Meyer - University of California at Irvine
- Seth Michaels - MyDD.com
- Luke Mitchell - Harper’s Magazine
- Gautham Nagesh - The Hill, Daily Caller
- Suzanne Nossel - Human Rights Watch
- Michael O’Hare - University of California at Berkeley
- Josh Orton - MyDD.com, Air America Media
- Rodger Payne - University of Louisville
- Rick Perlstein - Author, Campaign for America’s Future
- Nico Pitney - Huffington Post
- Harold Pollack - University of Chicago
- Katha Pollitt - The Nation
- Ari Rabin-Havt - Media Matters
- Joy-Ann Reid - South Florida Times
- David Roberts - Grist
- Lamar Robertson - Partnership for Public Service
- Sara Robinson - Campaign For America’s Future
- Alyssa Rosenberg - Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive
- Alex Rossmiller - National Security Network
- Michael Roston - Newsbroke
- Laura Rozen - POLITICO, Mother Jones
- Felix Salmon - Reuters
- Greg Sargent - Washington Post
- Thomas Schaller - Baltimore Sun
- Noam Scheiber - The New Republic
- Michael Scherer - TIME
- Mark Schmitt - American Prospect, The New America Foundation
- Rinku Sen - ColorLines Magazine
- Julie Bergman Sender - Balcony Films
- Adam Serwer - American Prospect
- Walter Shapiro - PoliticsDaily.com
- Kate Sheppard - Mother Jones
- Matthew Shugart - UC San Diego
- Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight.com
- Jesse Singal - The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly
- Ann-Marie Slaughter - Princeton University
- Ben Smith - **POLITICO **
- Sarah Spitz - KCRW
- Adele Stan - The Media Consortium
- Paul Starr - The Atlantic
- Kate Steadman - Kaiser Health News
- Jonathan Stein - Mother Jones
- Sam Stein - Huffington Post
- Matt Steinglass - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
- James Surowiecki - The New Yorker
- Jesse Taylor - Pandagon.net
- Steven Teles - Yale University
- Mark Thoma - The Economists’ View
- Michael Tomasky - The Guardian
- Jeffrey Toobin - CNN, The New Yorker
- Rebecca Traister - Salon
- Tracy Van Slyke - The Media Consortium
- Paul Waldman - Author, American Prospect
- Dave Weigel - Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent
- Moira Whelan - National Security Network
- Scott Winship - Pew Economic Mobility Project
- J. Harry Wray - DePaul University
- D. Brad Wright - University of NC at Chapel Hill
- Kai Wright - The Root
- Holly Yeager - Columbia Journalism Review
- Rich Yeselson - Change to Win
- Matthew Yglesias - Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly
- Jonathan Zasloff - UCLA
- Julian Zelizer - Princeton University
- Avi Zenilman - POLITICO
Wasn’t Politico, when it started out, billing itself as some sort of “centrist” news reporting outfit? Seems that lasted about as long as it took for Barack Obama to take what was an average economic recession and make it much worse. Gotta make sure to eliminate from consideration anybody’d that appeal to independent-minded voters, right? Outside of their man Barack, of course.
Now, journalists being the travelin’ man gypsy (the Brits call 'em what, pikeys or sommat, right?) class that they are, the list above probably shows folks in one sort of journalistic “profession”/endeavor or another, but who have also worn out their welcomes at those places and moved on to other inviting environs. That’s just the nature of professional journalism nowadays, I suppose. Especially for issue advocacy journalism or “hey-I’m-just-pretending-to-be-fair-minded” journalism.
Yup. Vaguely sourced article with innuendo and filled with boojum and smoke. I wonder if the “reporters” that put their name to the Herman Cain article (Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, Anna Palmer and Kenneth Vogel) would have done so if they’d been asked to do a similar piece, with no named sources, about Barack Obama? And, hey…would Politico even have run it if they had?
Jus’ wonderin’ is all…
(H/T to Insty (Glenn Reynolds) and The Vail Spot.)