Ombudsman Blog: August 30, 2009 - September 5, 2009

A Health-Care Story That Answers Reader Pleas

Last Sunday’s ombudsman’s column noted that readers say they want more explanatory stories on the health-care debate. Today’s Post has one that responds to their plea. Reporter Alec MacGillis writes from La Crosse, Wis., about the hospital where the...

By Andy Alexander  | September 4, 2009; 2:19 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (9)
 
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Delay In Removing An Insulting Comment

Cheryl Kagan is familiar with the rough and tumble of politics. She served eight years in the Maryland House of Delegates. Now the Montgomery County native is running for the state Senate. But she and her husband were taken aback...

By Andy Alexander  | September 2, 2009; 2:34 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (24)
 
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Less "Horse-Race" Reporting on Health Care

Sunday’s column on the need for less horse-race coverage of health-care reform sparked a large reader response. One was from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist. The column “hits on a pet peeve,” he wrote...

By Andy Alexander  | August 31, 2009; 12:34 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
 
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