WaPo's Festering Attribution Problem

WaPo‘s The Reliable Source blog continues in its long quest for lateness and attribution issues. And boy are they winning.

On Friday at 1:57 p.m. they reported the “news” that FNC’s Greta Van Susteren and hubby John Coale were attending the Kardashian wedding this past weekend. This was nearly four hours after Politico CLICK published an item that didn’t source a Thursday FishbowlDC item which first broke the news. To their credit, but not much because they wouldn’t have done it on their own, Politico later added proper attribution.

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