VF: “It is often entirely undifferentiated news. The minor mixed with the game-changing. Since Allen is as close as you can get to real time itself, there is almost no filter. Since his goal is as close to 100 percent detail as possible, there is almost no distinction between the ordinary and the noteworthy. So, in that sense, he isn’t the news. Indeed, what he gathers is not really news. Instead, it’s something near the totality of available information. – It isn’t writing either. That implies a series of choices, of shaping and weighing. This is typing. Amassing. Collecting. Channeling. It comes in to Allen; it comes out of Allen. A perfect machine. Reading “Playbook” is as close as you can come on a Washington morning to knowing everything. That’s part of the Politico strategy—to own the Washington morning.”
Gerrit Eicker 15:54 on 28. August 2009 Permalink |
VF: “It is often entirely undifferentiated news. The minor mixed with the game-changing. Since Allen is as close as you can get to real time itself, there is almost no filter. Since his goal is as close to 100 percent detail as possible, there is almost no distinction between the ordinary and the noteworthy. So, in that sense, he isn’t the news. Indeed, what he gathers is not really news. Instead, it’s something near the totality of available information. – It isn’t writing either. That implies a series of choices, of shaping and weighing. This is typing. Amassing. Collecting. Channeling. It comes in to Allen; it comes out of Allen. A perfect machine. Reading “Playbook” is as close as you can come on a Washington morning to knowing everything. That’s part of the Politico strategy—to own the Washington morning.”
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