New York Times: Shane Smith, the CEO and self-described “pit bull” of the fast-growing Vice Media, rumbled into Washington this week for a tour, including his first private meetings with several senators. The meetings came amid news that Vice will open its own Washington bureau in the next year as the company expands its political and presidential campaign coverage, aimed at breaking what Smith sees as the bifurcated “Fox and MSNBC ad nauseam” coverage. “They can’t ignore us anymore,” Smith said.