Posted
9:24 AM
by Gene
An e-mail I'd like to send out before day's end:
Dear Ms. Howell:
Is an ombudsman’s purpose merely to excuse mistakes and excesses after they happen – to provide a kind of intellectual fig leaf? And if an ombudsman is always apologizing for her paper’s mistakes and excesses but the paper goes on committing them, what’s the point of her job?
You well-paid hacks speak for yourselves – really, you do that too well. Who speaks for me?
Yours,
[Eugene David]