Popularity of Politico confirms both parties are totally indifferent to US citizens

• Salon.com on NY Times Magazine profile of Politico's Mike Allen:

"It's hard not to come away from the profile of Allen thinking that there’s

• a bipartisan quasi-conspiracy to run the country
• without regard for popular input,

and that Allen and Politico both embody and facilitate it. Sure, Republicans and Democrats are engaged in nasty, bitter feuds. But it's like when the prom king and queen split up: they're still not about to go make friends with the nerds outside the clique. And Allen is the sycophantic school paper gossip reporter who can't get enough of the who-cheated-on-who. This is a self-referential world

• where only politicians matter, no matter what they do, and
  
• regular people don't at all."

4/22, Winant, Salon.com, "How Politico and its star reporter are hurting America," via Poynter.org/Romenesko (Surprising as Winant is apparently not a gun or bible clinger). ed