WH Press names most frequently used "SCTTWH"

[Rose Siding]

Unnamed "Sources Close To The White House", that is.

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As a service to readers, and in an effort to demystify the anonymous source phenomenon, I asked 15 of the finest Bush White House reporters to help assemble a guide to the secret society of sources close to the White House. Despite the swelling ranks of scttwh, interviews revealed that there is indeed a core membership that might be called the Usual Suspects: a cadre of lobbyists, congressmen, ex-officials, and other hangers-on who seem to be programmed into every cell phone on the White House beat.
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Almost everyone agrees that, if the veil of anonymity were magically lifted from all White House coverage, Gillespie would be the single most frequently cited source close to the White House or a Bush adviser. He is a rare creature in Bush's Washington, someone genuinely close to the key players in the White House, as well as someone who talks regularly and semi-candidly with the press.
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Also in the top tier of former Bush officials likely to show up anonymously in your morning paper is Mary Matalin, who left her perch as a chief aide to Dick Cheney in December 2002. She receives fairly warm reviews from several reporters. Says a newsweekly correspondent, "She still talks. She is still very much on the circuit." A daily scribe adds, "Matalin is actually a really good one. She's a little more able to talk now that she doesn't work there. Still spewing the company line, but somewhat helpful." Such are the scraps that White House reporters have been reduced to coveting.

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