Re: Ombud?

From: Harlan Messinger (hmessinger.removethis_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/28/04


Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:02:06 -0400

Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> >What, in Swedish, is an Ombud? The question comes up because some
>> >people are using ``ombud''
>>
>> Where did you see this? I've never encountered it.
>
>``By now it's old news for everyone that the Times headline reporting on
>the 9/11 commission's staff report's conclusions on the relationship
>between Saddam and al Queda left a lot of people (including me) very, very
>unhappy. Today the Times Public Editor (otherwise known as an "Ombud" at
>every other paper)

They're wrong, as you note below. At the Washington Post it's
"ombudsman".

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Harlan Messinger
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