Word: ombudsman
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...judgment calls," some on evidence that was pivotal to the documentary's contentions. Indeed, he labeled the very use of the word conspiracy "inappropriate." Sauter, moreover, was moved to reassert strict, traditional standards and make major changes in news division practices, including installation of what amounts to an ombudsman. Perhaps as important, Sauter pledged "the full involvement and collaboration of the principal correspondent" of each documentary from the beginning of its reporting. Over-scheduled on-air stars like Wallace often join a project after most decisions have been made. Wallace, CBS conceded, did little reporting for the Viet...
...advertisement and got the job. Her main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women...
...process is badly in need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe the Post should consider not entering contests...
...like Richard Nixon-you're trying to cover up." Woodward: "It's all over. You've got to come clean." After hours of grilling in a conference room, she confided her guilt to one sympathetic editor, and the others were brought back in. As the ombudsman reported the scene, "Each editor hugged and kissed her. 'I'm sorry I was such a son of a bitch,' Woodward said. 'I deserved it,' Cooke answered. 'Yes, you did,' Woodward said." She wrote out her resignation and disappeared from the Post...
...acute embarrassment of the Post, the nation's newspaper editors were gathered in convention in Washington last week. Bradlee got some hard questions. Charles Seib, an earlier ombudsman at the Post, said that had its editors "realized that they were dealing with a life and not just a good front-page story," they would have sought medical attention for the boy before printing the story and in doing so discovered the fraud. Yet there was little gloating about the paper's predicament; it seemed too close to home...