How does D.C. gossip compare to New York or other big cities?
RL: I always point out that we appear on page 3 of the Washington Post Style section, which is half of page 6. So you’re only getting half of the actual gossip content that you would in a New York tabloid. Political content is a current that runs through everything in Washington. So our gossip tends not to be overwhelmingly sexy. CP: So how do you go about making Washington, D.C. sexy? RL: Well, there was a junior level sex scandal back in the summer involving a blogger named Washingtonienne who worked in a Senate office and wrote about her sexual encounters with some six separate men. I had the distinct happiness of interviewing Jessica Cutler, the blog’s author, for the first time on the record with her real name being used. But I think that on the Monica Lewinsky scale of scandal, where Monica and Clinton is a ten, this was probably about a two. And it didn’t even get close to some of the previous congressional scandals involving mistresses or famous strippers. So it was a pretty dr
