From an editor’s note on politico.com by founding editor John F. Harris headlined “POLITICO Marked the End of the Era of Institutional Media. Now We Need to Bring It Back.”:
As we approached the 15th anniversary of POLITICO, I plunged into old files expecting to find a lot that would make me cringe.
Cringe, I did, looking at some of the early stories, replete with typos, clunky writing, strained premises. More cringing: The first edition of our publication — January 23, 2007 — with its high school newspaper design and a red-black logo announcing the arrival of “THE POLITICO.” Just like in the early days of “TheFacebook,” we soon dropped the “THE.”