An Odd Journalistic Habit

Stuart Buck quotes the Post on Alito:

They say he inherited a commitment to unbiased professionalism from his father, who served as the New Jersey legislature's nonpartisan research director for a quarter century. They don't know anyone who isn't a journalist who actually calls him "Scalito."

Then Stuart notes: "And yet journalists always attribute the term to other people. Very odd."

Or perhaps just dishonest.