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Mike Allen

News · Washington power, politics, business · @mikeallen on X

Co-founder and executive editor of Axios. He launched Politico's Playbook in 2007 and wrote it until July 2016.

Previously: POLITICO (Playbook), Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Slant Score · ranked #52 of 175 from most left to most right
18 Left
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Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.

The receipts (1)

Correction / walk-back · served the left · +1.8 L · Nov 30, 2015

Apologized for offering Chelsea Clinton pre-agreed questions

2013 emails to Clinton aide Philippe Reines showed him offering to agree on interview questions with Chelsea Clinton in advance. In Playbook he wrote that he 'should never have suggested we would' and that the email 'makes me cringe.' The interview never happened.

Source: Poynter →
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