There's been some internal pushback to Ben Shapiro authorship of Playbook today. A few messages that were shared and upvoted in Politico's internal Slack today:
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Politico EIC Matt Kaminski briefly addressed the concerns today, saying the decision to have Shapiro guest author Playbook was part of the publication's commitment to reflecting a range of views
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Politico just said on this call that the plan is to announce the new Playbook team tomorrow
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In response to staff concerns, Kaminski reiterated his perspective about the need for ideological diversity, and has rebuffed suggestions for Politico to apologize: "We're not going to back away from having published something because some people think it was a mistake to do so."
On the editorial call, staff reaction to Shapiro's Playbook authorship was overwhelmingly negative. Some compared Shapiro to Alex Jones, and said Kaminski was dismissive of concerns. But a few staffers reached out to me to defend the decision (anonymously) thedailybeast.com/politico-faces…
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