The Washington Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell is taking a heavy beating over at one of the Post's blogs. When you're the paper's ombudsman you need to get the story straight and when you screw up, you need to come clean. Her fuck-up has been used by a whole lot of little neo-Nazi wannabes this week and the Post should expect the heat when their ombudsman issues blatantly false information.
'Washington Post' Suspends Comments on One of its Blog NEW YORK Jim Brady, the executive editor at washingtonpost.com, notified users of the post.blog that the public comment feature had been suspended "indefinitely" after "a significant number of folks" posted personal attacks, profanity, and hate speech. Attempts by E&P to reach Brady have been unsuccessful so far. It seems likely the move is related to controversy in recent days over Sunday’s Post column by ombudsman Deobrah Howell. She has been heavily criticized by some political Web sites and bloggers for writing that indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to both political parties, when most research shows he only gave directly to Republicans. By E&P Staff
