Romenesko

Washington Post
Michael Getler says the Post's story about complaints that the vacationing President Bush was insensitive to a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions had many readers asking "who are all these skeptics doing the complaining besides [the Post reporters]?" Getler writes: My view is that this story did have flaws in the way it was presented. On the other hand, I think the paper did the right thing in reporting this story and putting it on Page One." More editor/ombud columns:
> Many NYT readers, staffers offended by photo of dead children (NYT)
> Oregonian readers, ombudsman question paper's tsunami coverage (O)
> Boston Globe improved in the corrections department in 2004 (BG)
> Orlando Sentinel failed to meet fewer corrections goal for '04 (OS)
> Akron BJ ran 388 corrections in '04 -- many of them embarrassing (ABJ)
> Rocky Mountain News ran 498 corrections in '04 -- up 16% from '03 (RMN)
> San Diego U-T ran 690 corrections in '04 -- up by 14 from '03 (SDU-T)
> Strib's new ombud: "I've talked with hundreds of you already" (Strib)
> Fort Wayne Sentinel reader spots freelancer's plagiarism (FWS)