WaPo's Reliable Source Notoriously Late, Won't Attribute

WaPo‘s flagship gossip column “The Reliable Source” isn’t exactly setting a good example these days. Sure, we know it’s loathsome to have to attribute to someone else. But that’s the breaks and the way it goes if you want to be respected by your peers.

But “The UnReliable Source” plays by its own rules. This week they reported that Lindsay Lohan was attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren – they left off her husband, John Coale, and pointedly wrote that Greta didn’t respond to their emails.

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