More questions about the lacrosse story
The calls and e-mails started pouring in within hours of the DNA report last Monday. The words differed, but the message was the same: When is The News & Observer going to 'fess up that it got the Duke sexual assault story wrong?
Searching for fairness in the Duke story
Outrage" has been the operative word to describe community sentiment in Durham in the past week. And justifiably so, if the allegations against members of the Duke men's lacrosse team are even close to true.
Will newspapers outlast Social Security?
Philip Meyer is a newspaperman who thinks he can measure anything.
Errors gnaw at newspaper credibility
Aaaarrrrgh! That was the sound you heard Tuesday from the editors' offices on the third floor of The News & Observer building. Maybe it echoed around some readers' kitchen tables that morning too, as folks read the seven corrections.
Taunting coverage angers State fans
An ugly incident at the N.C. State-Wake Forest game prompted an even uglier public debate last week about journalism as practiced at The News & Observer. Let's talk about it.
'Anonymice' menace papers' credibility
Rare is the week that this public editor doesn't receive a complaint that The News & Observer has ignored an important news story.
News columnists anger, attract readers
The News & Observer's news columnists have been getting under readers' skins lately. That's good.
Bloggers challenge traditional media
Got a call the other day from a reader wanting to know why The News & Observer had downplayed the resignation of CNN news chief Eason Jordan. Jordan, you'll recall, stirred controversy with his reported assertion that the U.S. military had deliberate
Wakefield coverage raises fairness issues
Last week, we explored in this space the issue of how reporters should treat "private citizens" who are not used to dealing with the media.
Private citizens who get into the news
The recent controversy over the Wakefield school reassignments is so rich with journalistic issues that I -- and you -- can't absorb it all in one swallow.
The wall between news and editorial
One of the most persistent perceptions about The News & Observer is that news coverage is linked to editorial policy.
Same-sex marriage coverage stops short
Yikes. When will The N&O stop picking at the same-sex marriage issue?
Hip-hop comic strip shakes up readers
One of the most frequent criticisms The News & Observer gets from readers these days is not about its news coverage at all, but about the comics.
Sports column was a dud, readers say
Shavlik Randolph may be glad to know that there are lots of folks out there who care dearly about him, even if The News & Observer does not.
The bowls, the polls and sportswriters
Football bowls are in the news this week. So are the polls behind the bowls.
International news: Tastier spinach
Readers, do we really care about Ukraine? In every issue since Nov. 21, The News & Observer has run at least one story about the presidential election in that country and the subsequent protests over election fraud.
The news from Southeast Raleigh
The News & Observer had good coverage of Southeast Raleigh in Wednesday's paper.
'Merry Christmas': A controversial ad
Merry Christmas. Does that greeting of the season offend you? With an accompanying message, it did mightily rile a number of our readers who found offense in a full-page ad that ran in the Nov. 24 N&O.
Your turn: Readers gain an advocate
The News & Observer is not perfect. You already knew that? So did I, a veteran of the newspaper these 27 years. But that message of fallibility in newspaperland was hammered home to me recently in meetings with two sets of readers.
