What's With Politico?

TNR does a piece on the start-up and success of Politico and touches on some serious journalistic debates along the way. Here's a good anecdote to get you started:

Politico reporters also file whenever news breaks. Shortly after 8 a.m. on November 10, while commuting to work, media reporter Michael Calderone learned that msnbc's Joe Scarborough had just said "fuck" on air. Calderone, who often blogs from the back of taxis and buses, leapt off the crowded Mount Pleasant bus and blogged the YouTube clip from a park bench.