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...Times. When A.H. Raskin wrote them three years ago, he suggested that newspapers combat their smugness by appointing ombudsman-like editors to investigate readers' complaints. The suggestion has been largely ignored by U.S. newspapers, including Raskin's own. But at least two papers-the jointly owned Louisville Courier-Journal and Times -have tried...
...names in government and business have always felt they could call the executive editor or publisher direct," says Courier-Journal City Editor Paul Janensch. "The vast majority of complaints the ombudsman gets are from ordinary citizens who used to feel they didn't have easy access to the papers." Some, like a college dean who complained about inadequate coverage of a cultural event, are even pleased to be proved wrong. After a visit from Herchenroeder, the dean wrote: "It is devastating to be indicted and found guilty in a courteous fashion. I appreciate the trouble you took to react...
...problems are with editors and reporters whose stories are called into question. "Newspaper people are very defensive," he says. "Sometimes they're harder to deal with than the public." Herchenroeder wins most of his internal battles. A few weeks ago, former Kentucky Governor A.B. ("Happy") Chandler denied a Courier-Journal report that he had pulled a student's hair and hit him after a meeting of the University of Kentucky board of trustees. Chandler insisted that he had only hit the student. Some of the paper's editors, feeling that Chandler was splitting hairs, wanted to ignore...
Diplomatic Courier...
Personal Opposition. Though most University of Georgia law students agreed with Cowen's evaluation of Rusk, word of the selection triggered an immediate outcry from conservatives on the 15-member board of regents that must approve the appointment. Regent Roy V. Harris, editor of the racist Augusta Courier and state chairman of George Wallace's American Independent Party, led the assault on Rusk's policies and qualifications. But Harris' blasts were not really aimed at the policies that have made Rusk persona non grata among liberals in the North. His target was Rusk's liberalism...