Word: ombudsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best, critics say, news doctors prescribe cures that are either superficial or self-evident. "Any editors worth their salt shouldn't have to pay money to consultants," says Charles Whipple, the Boston Globe's ombudsman. At worst, the use of consultants leads to an epidemic of fluff at the expense of hard news. Magid and Dallas' Belden Associates usually advise clients to squeeze some front-page nation al and international news into a box of summaries. After an audience study last year by Belden and some in-house soul searching, the Miami News began to boil much...
Bowdlerism is nothing new at American newspapers. Many dailies reject offensively prurient ads on a case-by-case basis, and some papers print them only after extensive doctoring. Vernon Johnston, advertising ombudsman of the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal, simply blacks out with his felt-tip pen any anatomical displays that trouble him. "They call me the mad brassiere artist," says he. Other papers have for years had policies banning or limiting adult-film advertising, among them the Detroit News, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Miami Herald. Wrote Herald Executive Editor John McMullan last June in welcoming the new puritan revival...
...subsequent disillusionment with it. Soon after Nixon began his first term of office, Mollenhoff left a distinguished reporting career, highlighted by a Pulitzer (1958) and the publication of five books on various aspects of government waste, stupidity and wrongdoing, in order to join the White House staff as an "ombudsman". His job: investigating activities of the sprawling executive branch...
...first to view the real problems: excessive secrecy and an extreme political motivation that dominated their thinking," Mollenhoff said. These obsessions and the Nixon team's unshakeable belief in executive privilege defeated the author before he began to fight, and crippled the potential usefulness of a White House ombudsman position. The manner in which Haldeman, Ehrlichmann and their henchmen handled the government and its critics is regarded by Mollenhoff as the result of ignorance and amateurism more than as the consequence of deliberate evil, as stated in the book...
...newsman would argue that reporting "reality" is without consequences, or that exercising journalistic responsibility-the many decisions involved in how to play a story-is to be taken lightly. Several journalists, both print and broadcast, worried especially about the impact of television. Charles Seib, press ombudsman at the Washington Post, is offended by televised "instant replay" of President Ford's brush with death outside the St. Francis Hotel. "They played it slow, they played it fast, they paused," he complains. "You've seen that film a dozen times now." A number of newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme...