Romenesko

Cleveland Plain Dealer
In a column announcing his retirement, Dick Feagler (left) wrote: "Lately, I've taken to writing about a Coffee Shoppe. There is no real Coffee Shoppe. It's another Figment of my imagination." (He once wrote about an imaginary Mrs. Figment.) "Part of [Feagler's] charm ... is the throwback style of his column," writes ombud Ted Diadiun. "The Coffee Shoppe, for better or worse, was part of that, and I'm guessing that few of his readers consider his creation of it more than a misdemeanor, if that. That said, there's no getting around the fact that some people were misled, and we are not supposed to be in the business of misleading our readers." || More editor/ombud columns:
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