They once reported on some science result and for the life of me I could not figure out who actually published the result and had to search for the original pap

They once reported on some science result and for the life of me I could not figure out who actually published the result and had to search for the original paper. I emailed the AT author and asked why this was omitted from their article and they responded with something like "I went to that same university, so I felt like it would be biased if I mentioned it". This is not a serious outlet.