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’s written for The Washington Post, Garden & Gun, Outside Magazine, Washington City Paper, DCist, and PoPVille. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives in Del Ray.
