Politico Playbook Issues Correction for Botched Sotomayor Sighting

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/politico-playbook-issues-correction-after-botched-justice-sonia-sotomayor-sighting-at-le-diplomate

Politico’s Playbook newsletter issued a correction on Saturday morning after misidentifying Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s wife, Iris Weinshall, as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

The publication claimed that the case of mistaken identity was sparked by a photo sent in by a tipster allegedly taken at the hip D.C. eatery Le Diplomate on Friday night. In Politico’s report, they claimed Sotomayor, after not appearing for oral arguments Friday at the Supreme Court over coronavirus concerns, was dining with Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Our tipster got it wrong, but we should have double-checked,” the correction reads.

The publication never reached out to Schumer’s office. “I did not hear from them prior to publication,” Justin Goodman, Schumer’s top comms aide, told The Daily Beast. Reached for comment, Politico spokesperson Brad Dayspring declined to respond on the record. The Daily Beast was subsequently and accidentally added to a group chat in which he texted two colleagues, “I emailed Mike [Zapler] and Matt [Kaminski] [to] discuss.” Eugene Daniels, who wrote the item, declined to comment through a spokesperson. In a third version of their correction late Saturday, Politico added, “Politico standards require we verify this information...the editor who received the tip failed to do so in this case.”

The Daily Beast reported in late November that Politico’s marquee product has been embedded in turmoil. Late on Saturday evening, readers of Politico’s newsletter made The Daily Beast aware that a subsequent email noting the corrections was not sent. In response, a Politico spokesperson told The Daily Beast: “It will be addressed in tomorrow’s newsletter.”

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[chia]

1. "Our tipster got it wrong, but we should have double-checked"

YA THINK? Is Politico the Daily Mail now?

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5. The RW German publisher Axel Springer bought them a few months back, so they are lurching even

further to the right than their previous 'Dems in dissary' constant drumbeat.

I see Politico, the dead zombie mag (and heavily skewed for ages to the RW) Newsweek, plus Murdoch's shit NY Post tossed up as OPs far too often here now.

[chia]

6. Thank you, I didn't know that

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10. Inside a Divided Politico: Playbook Drama, 'Woke Police' Fears, and Union Fights

Nearly two dozen current and former Politico staffers told The Daily Beast of a series of burgeoning conflicts within the iconic Beltway publication.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-a-divided-politico-playbook-drama-woke-police-fears-and-union-fights



Politico is known for its wildly popular Playbook newsletter, its vast reporting talent pool, and its success as the most widely recognized Beltway-centric publication. But behind the flashy exterior, billion-dollar sale, and massive draw of their star reporters lies a series of burgeoning newsroom conflicts.

From personnel issues, including complaints about internal “woke police,” to a divisive unionization drive, to increasing competition in the profitable D.C. newsletter space, tensions appear to be growing within Politico, which was recently bought by German-based media powerhouse Axel Springer for more than $1 billion. The Daily Beast spoke with 22 current and former Politico staffers for this story. Many of these sources said it is within Playbook, the outlet’s signature newsletter product, that disharmony has been most apparent.

Helmed by Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, Tara Palmeri, and Eugene Daniels—who were cast as larger-than-life superheroes in a splashy January photo shoot and feature in Vanity Fair—the Playbook team has had much success in the calmer post-Trump news era, breaking a string of scoops and garnering tens of thousands of new subscribers and high advertising sales for their daily newsletter, according to three people familiar with the matter. With increased competition from the likes of Axios, The Washington Post’s Five Minute Fix, and Punchbowl, a newsletter launched earlier this year by Playbook alums Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, the pressure to succeed has never been higher.

“We really wanted to push harder both into official Washington and unofficial Washington, and you need a larger team to be able to do that,” Politico’s editor-in-chief Matt Kaminski told Vanity Fair earlier this year about the Playbook quartet. But sources said the marquee product has its fair share of juicy tabloid-worthy internal drama—much of it centered around conflicts between Daniels, whose reporting generally focuses on Vice President Kamala Harris and First Lady Jill Biden, and Palmeri, a former Page Six reporter and ABC News White House correspondent.

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2. Politico is shit.

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4. Its stunning how far they have fallen.

Everyone who was involved in that story should be outed. From the tipster to the reporter to the whatever editor-type thing supervised.

[chia]

7. Absolutely

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3. That birthed a lot of Twitter dunks

This one was the best:

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[spooky3]

9. LOL! Nt

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11. Her hair was perfect.

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8. From the photos on the web, there is at best a FAINT resemblance

Between the two women. This is a really creative “error.”

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12. "Brad Dayspring"????

Maybe it's good practice to not take seriously a spokesperson that uses their porn name.

[tanyev]

13. I doubt that Justice Sotomayor would do much casual socializing

with currently serving senators, even without a pandemic.