* (Ombudsman's Note: This mailbag has been updated to include additional information from the producers of "The Vaccine War" that arrived late on Thursday, after this column had been posted.) Frontline has become a firing line lately, as hundreds of... More »
PBS's venerable public affairs and investigative series Frontline is, I confess, a favorite of mine, and has been for as long as I can remember watching public television. For me, Frontline, along with CBS's "60 Minutes," is the best of... More »
This posting comes with two warnings: 1) It is very long. 2) It is all about one subject, the extensive World War II American aerial bombing campaign against Nazi Germany from 1942 until the German surrender in 1945. It is... More »
Lots of mail this past week, a good deal of it in response to last week's brief column about viewer, and ombudsman, reaction to "Sharpe's Challenge," the first of a two-part Masterpiece Classic presentation based on the novels of British... More »
The brief collection of letters that follow doesn't have much to do with the usual fodder for an ombudsman; no journalistic standards at stake here or issues of accuracy or perceived bias or unfairness. Rather, these are letters from viewers... More »
