Romenesko

PBS.org
Gwen Ifill said on the June 20th "Washington Week in Review": "Al Gore came out of the closet here and endorsed -- we don't know where he's been exactly." The show's transcript only read: "Al Gore endorsed." Ombud Michael Getler writes: "Now, altering a transcript to remove a controversial or embarrassing statement is a very bad and fundamental journalistic sin, and also professionally stupid because someone will always catch it. And someone did, in the person of [blogger Tony] Peyser." || More editor/ombud columns:
> NYT says using interrogator's name was necessary for credibility (NYT)
> Relationship between Courant and its readers is "utterly unique" (HC)
> Plain Dealer doesn't get big reaction to changes that most expected (PD)
> "Change in something so personal [as a paper] can be unsettling" (N&O)
> News & Record keeps "refrigerator journalism" in the print edition (N&R)
> Some Times-Union readers see a pro-Obama slant in the paper (T-U)
> Columbus Dispatch to run monthlong series of money-saving tips (CD)