Jim VandeHei
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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than most reporters would produce by the time they woke up and ended their day.
And so we created a new velocity to political journalism.
We added more voice to political journalism.
We wrote about the people and the power and what was animating it.
And it nailed it, right?
It nailed a market need and it took off like a rocket.
Within four months, we're on stage co-moderating a presidential debate.
It was like storybook level stuff.
But what happened was after everybody was a naysayer and said it won't work, then it started to work.
Then little by little, people started to pay more attention to their traffic.
People realized, oh, my goodness, the topic that drives most traffic is politics.
Then everybody started mass producing politics.
It metastasized.
And then suddenly everybody was –
consuming politics all day.
And what I, the term I used to use is like, it's okay.
Like Doritos are nice.
Like I like a Dorito.
Like if you have a Dorito once in a while, that's fine.