Slate's Shafer Investigates the Anonymice

In a column yesterday, Slate’s excellent Jack Shafer looked at the unnamed “senior administration officials” who made it into the papers during President Bush’s European swing last week.

His findings:

The worst offender over this interval was the Los Angles Times, followed by the New York Times, the Washington Post (owned by the company that owns Slate), the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. The good news is that I found no infested clips in USA Today, which is more vigilant than most papers in eradicating anonymice, and none in the Wall Street Journal via its subscription site.

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