Why Washington D.C. Gossip Sucks

We’ve been watching it happen for months. But it’s finally solidified: Politico‘s CLICK has officially given up on original reporting and is now aggregating items from WaPo‘s Reliable Source. The Wednesday afternoon CLICK item on actress Rashida Jones and President Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau stems from an item that WaPo aggregated from Playboy at 3:02 p.m. Politico nabbed the item an hour later at 4:02 p.m.