Word: ombudsman
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...addition to her role as ombudsman for woman's ice hockey, Worsley has been trying to get together a Bible study meeting of athletes. "I see the fellowship as a relationship with a bunch of people, not an activity. Fellowship is the best word for it," she said. Worsley no longer serves as an executive in the organization but she plays guitar at every Friday night prayer-meeting...
...misguided. We wouldn't do it." Yet some might. "We're rethinking our whole position," says Dave Lanzettel, city editor of the Portland (Me.) Express, which last year identified a 27-year-old rape victim. The Boston Globe names names when the victim is well known. Says Ombudsman Charles Whipple: "If the Governor's daughter were raped, don't think we wouldn't print...
...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...
...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...