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The Washington Post's ombudsman has issued a brief Royal Proclamation:
A Short BreakI will be off for a few days. Blogging will continue shortly.
He has, of course, not addressed the hundreds of reader complaints about the firing of Dan Froomkin. That's not the duty of an ombudsman; his duty is to pass along the press releases of WaPo management to the readership, and to hide when things get hot.
A coward AND a man with absolutely no understanding of the meaning of journalistic integrity. He and Ms. Shepard (Ombudswoman of NPR) should get together and have an Ombudsbaby. It would embody such a negative standard of journalistic integrity that it would act as a "black hole" for the media, sucking Mssrs. Hiatt, Alexander, and many others into an alternate universe. The Bizarro universe, I hope.
