Maybe because the rest of the news these days is so grim, it became a very big deal all over the media last week, including even the ombudsman's column, when it became known that Sesame Street had cancelled a planned... More »
Did the producers of PBS's famed Sesame Street children's program do the right thing, or did they get weak-kneed and wobbly and engage in self-censorship after the first round of criticism? Or, are they the best PR people in the... More »
The mail was pretty light this week, but complaints from just a few people about how interviews were carried out on the PBS NewsHour dealing with the Tea Party struck me as making a valuable and broader point about news... More »
* Ombudsman's Note: This posting was updated on Sept. 17 to include a reaction to this ombudsman's column by Margaret Drain, vice president for national programming at the WGBH (Boston) Educational Foundation. Ronald Reagan liked to use that slogan —... More »
What follows is a sampling of the mail that accumulated while I was away for two weeks in August and during my first week back. For the most part, the letters are variations on themes that arise fairly steadily in... More »
