Jan
20
Ombudsmen have been scorned and mocked in recent weeks. The Washington Post’s Patrick B. Pexton suggested that the Post might be “innovating too fast” and The New York Times’s Arthur S. Brisbane questioned whether or not the Times should be a “truth vigilante.” They might take comfort in the words of Post ombudsman Sam Zagoria, writing in Nieman Reports in 1986: “Ombudsmen are not meant to be loved.”
