This is very good.https://twitter.com/evefairbanks/status/933383092454281216 …
I think all these different approaches can coexist on parallel tracks. There's a place for insidery gossip ... as well as real scoops, policy analysis, investigative reporting etc etc
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But see, I think what the writer was suggesting was that the larger, organizing narrative Halperin created wasn’t true.
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Like, I loved
@Gawker and think there is absolutely a place for what those sites do...b/c they tell it like it IS. -
I think what Fairbanks was saying is Halperin’s “This Town” meta-narrative was misleading about how power in DC works.
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It is misleading, but if she thought it was misleading, why did she feel she had to go along with it? Plenty of other people don't and have successful careers in DC
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Ok, see, that’s what I really liked about this piece. Maybe her vision of other possibilities was limited—I cant speak for her.
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I just don't buy the suggestion that because of Halperin or Mike Allen that everyone had to buy into that one type of journalism
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It's also total BS that you can only make it as a reporter in DC if you go to "Georgetown dinners"
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Well, she is saying that was what you had to do to become the sort of superstar someone like Halperin was...
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...maybe she doesnt say there are plenty of ppl who didn’t aspire to that and just plugged away behind the scenes.
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