What do you think, David? Who - if anyone - was the inspiration?Ĭarr: I think they used Caligula. For me, it lacks the necessary nuance and complexity, but I wonder if the show’s writers are trying to model the Underwoods on the Bill and Hillary Clinton-style partnership that exists in popular mythology. When he confirms that yes, it was the reporter, Claire seems to accept the affair, simply asking, “What does she get us?” When he comes home the morning after his liaison with Zoe, still in the same clothes he wore to work the dayīefore, Claire asks him, coolly, “The reporter?” We get it we don’t need to be beaten over the head with it.Ĭhanging gears, I’m curious what you make of Frank and Claire Underwood’s relationship now. Yeah, yeah, we get the point - if Slugline is Politico 2.0, then the 24-hour news cycle has become the 24-minute news cycle has become the 24-second news cycle has become the- wait, is that a LOL penguin? “In eight minutes, I could be bored with you.” “IfĮight minutes passes on anything, I get bored,” the editor warns Zoe. (Think Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post, or Ben Smith at BuzzFeed). However, the Slugline editor’s cooler-than-cool schtick felt like a caricature of an actual editor of an online empire. Taking,” he seems to be accurately espousing a “new media” ethos - freedom and exposure, but only for those willing to take risks and hustle.
When Frank tells Zoe, “If freedom and exposure are what they’re offering, I would say that is a meeting worth Parker: I’d say Slugline is hit and miss, in terms of ringing true. New media is the new orthodoxy, the suggestion seems to be, and those whoĬan’t get with the program will get kicked to the curb.Īshley, I’m wondering if the cartoonishness of Slugline put you off, or whether you think that as a dramatic stand-in for a digital enterprise, it scans just fine. Having revealed himself as an old codger intent on going down with dignity while the readership of his paper attenuates, he is promptly canned. TheyĪren’t the foundation this paper was built on.” He pushes back: “Zoe, Twitter, blogs, rich media, they are all fads. Her old editor at the Herald, meanwhile, is forced to explain to his publisher how he lost one of the rising stars of Beltway journalism. A beanbag chair may be a fine place to take a nap, but as a launching pad for missiles designed to expose government malfeasanceĪnd beat competitors, it’s not what I would choose. In the first boom, but they did give us desks and computers. No, the big problem for me is that there is no furniture in the office. The editor is constantly on the prowl for “edge” and “grit.” I realizedĪs I was watching that I could never work there even though I like my edge and grit as much as the next reporter. Slugline, from what I can tell, is the kind of lovechild that would spring to life if Gawker and Politico hooked up. One might hope for in a publishing enterprise, but the digital economy is rife with examples of things that started out sounding silly - Google and Yahoo come to mind - and end up redolent with meaning.Īs Zoe explains it, “Six months from now, Slugline will be what Politico was a year and a half ago.” Stories in our internal system, but most civilians think of it as a slimy snail-like creature that seems to have misplaced its shell and leaves a trail of ooze as it proceeds. Can we just dwell on that name for a second? Journalists may recognize it as a nod to the term we use for naming It’s hard to say which.Ĭarr: Say hello to Slugline, Zoe’s new base of operations for her career. Frank begins to open up doors for his fellow congressman, Peter Russo, that seem to lead either to the gates of hell or the governorship of Pennsylvania. Synopsis: After Frank Underwood and Zoe Barnes consummate the more intimate aspects of their alliance, Zoe decides to leave The Washington Herald and join a nascent political blog. But be warned that there is a thicket of spoilers there, and in the discussion that follows. Every couple of days, Ashley Parker and David Carr kick around an episode of “House of Cards.” We are now deep in the story and deconstruct, but if you want to catch up with past chats, you can find episode
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