If you would have told me this Politico story was excerpted from the Onion, I honestly would have believed you. Yes, this is a "reported" story about a secret email list for Beltway media elite to talk with each other and congratulate each other for having "fame" to be invited into this apparently high status symbol - as if the creation of said list, and its discussions, is "news." The story really epitomizes every stereotype of the Washington-New York Elite Media Cabal as an insulated status-obsessed hive of self-importance and political incest that is most focused on chattering amongst (and about) itself.
At one level, this is quite literally a "news" story about an email list - yes, a news story about an email list (what amazing grassroots organizing!). At another level, this piece is media reporting on media talking to other media about the media. At still another level of self-absorption, this piece is the New York-Washington Elite Media bragging about the New York-Washington Elite Media talking to fellow New York-Washington Elites about their exciting lives in New York and Washington (which might be fine for a social club - but as the subject of a political "news" story...uh, not so much). And yet, somehow, the elite press corps wonders why it is seen by the public at large as an increasingly irrelevant group of self-obsessed sycophants, and why so much of the public is turning elsewhere for news.
I mean, seriously - this is the most hilarious story I've read in a really long time (though I honestly don't know what's funnier - the existence of this "secret" list, or the Politico writing a story about it). It provides a whole new meaning for the term "circle jerks." You have to read it to believe it.
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