Each morning, in-boxes across town ping with a pair of e-mail newsletters: Playbook, written by three Politico journalists, and Axios AM, by Mike Allen (who originally created Playbook). Because we’re hypercompetitive inside-the-Beltway types, we figured we’d compare a single week’s worth of the digests.
Playbook |
Axios AM |
|
Word Count |
21,238 | 10,733 |
Sharpest Take |
How Stormy Daniels has topped the President at his own media-management game. | How the Facebook data breach may lead lawmakers to look into privacy regulations for social-media giants. |
References to Trump |
148 | 90 |
Number of Ellipses |
423 | 95 |
Random Tidbit |
Trump backer Robert Mercer has donated money to freeze stockpiles of human urine in the Oregon mountains. | A website called Weedmaps lists different local distributors. |
Number of birthday shout-outs |
258 | 0 |
This article appeared in the May 2018 issue of Washingtonian.
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Mimi Montgomery joined Washingtonian in 2018. She previously was the editorial assistant at Walter Magazine in Raleigh, North Carolina, and her work has appeared in Outside Magazine, Washington City Paper, DCist, and PoPVille. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives in Adams Morgan.
