http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/ombudsman/ en Copyright 2008 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:41:05 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/ombudsman/images/pbslogo-rss.gif http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/ombudsman/ http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/08/ombudsmans_mailbag_22.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/08/ombudsmans_mailbag_22.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:41:05 -0500 (Ombudsman's Note: This column was scheduled to appear at its usual time last Friday, July 25, but posting was delayed until Monday, July 28, due to technical problems at pbs.org.) The headline of this column is lifted from a song... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/post_14.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/post_14.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:25:42 -0500 The mail from viewers this week focused on the new, the old and the continuing. The majority of comments dealt with a new program. They had less to do with typical ombudsman's issues of journalistic standards or editorial integrity. Rather,... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/ombudsmans_mailbag_21.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/ombudsmans_mailbag_21.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:11 -0500 Welcome to another collection of viewer responses to what they saw and heard on PBS in recent days. This week, most of the mail, and certainly most of the heat, was generated by Part II of a three-part series titled... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_20.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_20.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:40:56 -0500 As so often happens when even small mistakes or missteps are made, the cover-up turns out to be worse than the crime. It can be even more perplexing when it is not clear that a crime actually was committed. This... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/out_of_the_closet_and_out_of_the_transcript.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/07/out_of_the_closet_and_out_of_the_transcript.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:47:18 -0500 Last week's Ombudsman's Mailbag centered on a couple of letters from viewers about the June 13 edition of "Bill Moyers Journal" that focused on the theme of "inequality in America." I thought two of the letters, especially, captured the on-going... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_19.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_19.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:44 -0500 Welcome to another Ombudsman's Mailbag, a sampling of comments from viewers during the past week. The volume, as measured in numbers, was down a bit compared to our normal flow of incoming e-mail and calls. But the volume, as in... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/ombudsmans_mailbag_20.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/ombudsmans_mailbag_20.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:11 -0500 http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/changing_the_rules.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/changing_the_rules.html Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:48:50 -0500 I was out of the office last week, attending the annual gathering of news ombudsmen. It was held this year, fittingly, in Stockholm, Sweden, home of the word, and the birthplace of this strange occupation. According to the Web site... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_18.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/06/the_ombudsmans_mailbag_18.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:56:12 -0500 The headline above was made famous by Jimmy Cannon, a well-known and widely-read New York sportswriter and columnist in the 1940s and '50s. Lots of people, including me, sort of grew up reading his column. But every once in a... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/nobody_asked_me_but.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/nobody_asked_me_but.html Fri, 23 May 2008 13:53:57 -0500 Note: This column contains a correction posted on May 20. Each year, for the past several years, PBS puts out a press release that proclaims proudly that a new national poll by the respected Roper organization "shows that Americans consider... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/caution_that_program_may_not_be_from_pbs.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/caution_that_program_may_not_be_from_pbs.html Thu, 15 May 2008 16:42:10 -0500 If you are a devoted viewer of PBS, it was hard to miss endless shots of Navy jets taking off and landing on the deck of the USS Nimitz last week, part of a highly-promoted and, indeed, tantalizing series called... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/carried_away.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/carried_away.html Thu, 08 May 2008 15:02:22 -0500 This was a busy week at the ombudsman's desk. Things started to heat up last Friday night after the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. was the guest for the full hour of Bill Moyers Journal. In case there is anyone... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/post_13.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/05/post_13.html Thu, 01 May 2008 15:45:51 -0500 http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/04/about_those_retired_military_officeranalysts.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/04/about_those_retired_military_officeranalysts.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:37:36 -0500 Welcome to another collection of viewer responses to what they see and hear on PBS. Things were a little slow this past week; nothing that generated a great deal of mail. But what does arrive is always interesting. Here's a... http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/04/ombudsmans_mailbag_19.html http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2008/04/ombudsmans_mailbag_19.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:59:03 -0500