Lawrence, do you think the vision of DC Halperin advanced was an accurate one?
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B/c I rhink you are taking the critique as one of style, not substance, whereas I saw it as the opposite.
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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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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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...but I am glad to hear you say that as a relative newcomer to this whole thing.
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Shorter version: You don't have to be a dick to be successful in DC ... but it helps
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Also, there are perhaps different formulations of what "success" actually is!
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Having a job is one
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Yeah, that's one.
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