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Wednesday, 03 January 2007
al-NYT set to torpedo public editor

No more NYTimes' ombudsman?
MIchelle Malkin

I've had my criticisms of NYTimes ombudsman Byron Calame, but his mission is a difficult one--and he has earned my respect with two columns taking the paper to task for its flawed abortion in El Salvador magazine cover story and for belatedly, if tepidly, admitting the paper's reckless and wrong-headed decision to blab about the SWIFT banking surveillance program.

Calame has had a tough time getting his bosses to respond to him. Now, it seems they are going to respond...by possibly getting rid of his position. His term ends in May. The New York Observer runs with speculation that the paper will close the ombudsman's office altogether:

The New York Times will soon decide whether it will do away with its public editor. The two-year term of the current public editor, Byron (Barney) Calame, will conclude in May. There may, or may not, be another. “Over the next couple of months, as Barney’s term enters the home stretch, I’ll be taking soundings from the staff, talking it over with the masthead, and consulting with Arthur,” meaning publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., wrote Bill Keller, The Times’ executive editor, in an e-mail to The Observer. ...

Allahpundit has more here.

Posted by Bill Faith on January 3, 2007 at 12:59 PM in Media Malpractice | Permalink

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