Even better, the number of posts with embarrassing information: Zero.

Via WaPo:

America knows Fox News as the country’s highest-rated cable news network. It regularly trounces not-really-rivals CNN and MSNBC in the ratings.

But Fox News employees know Fox News as a clampdown operation. Defined as a “severe or concerted attempt to suppress something,” “clampdown” describes just how Fox treats the sharing of information about its operations with the outside world.

hat’s why the debut Tuesday of a new Gawker column, titled the Fox Mole, was so astonishing. The gossip Web site had wrangled a Fox News employee to spill state secrets from within the tent, including, in the Mole’s first installment, some insiderish Fox footage taken during a break in an interview featuring Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. A second posting hit the site Wednesday morning, about bathroom conditions at Fox News.

The two pieces had two things in common: Neither produced anything groundbreaking; both were highly unauthorized.

The Fox Mole column debuted at 3:11 Tuesday afternoon. At 12:38 Wednesday afternoon, Mediaite.com reported that Fox News had identified the Fox Mole. Which means that the Fox clampdown leaders had apparently finished up their work by lunchtime.

Here’s the Fox statement that Mediaite published: “We found the person and we’re exploring legal options at this time.” […]

The network, as always, had good internal sources. Just hours after that headstrong confirmation, Gawker posted another item from the Mole. Or the Former Mole.

“In the end, it was the digital trail that gave me away,” wrote Joe Muto, who identified himself as an associate producer for “The O’Reilly Factor.”