Ombudsman columns
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Honoring Madison's constitutional legacy
Ombudsman On the map, the road wending through Virginia's beautiful Piedmont region is Highway 20.
03.22.99
National FOI Day: Access is the key to good government
Ombudsman Tomorrow is the birthday of James Madison, who labored to embed the principle of an informed citizenry in our civic compact. That is why across this nation, in ways large and small, March 16 is observed as National Freedom of Information Day.
03.15.99
Why the Starr 'muzzle' on Monica telling the full story?
Ombudsman Something like 70 million people not yet afflicted with scandal fatigue tuned in to watch Barbara Walter's two-hour interview with Monica Lewinsky Wednesday. And as entertained and titillated as they may have been, they did not get the whole story.
03.08.99
Scandalmania: The press just can't help itself
Ombudsman How did Juanita Broaddrick's accusation that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in a Little Rock hotel in the spring of 1978 wind up on the front pages of mainstream newspapers 21 years later?
03.01.99
'Broadcasters not tending to their free-speech interests'
Ombudsman Broadcasters not tending to their free-speech interests
02.25.99
Exorcising the demons of television
Ombudsman Our night terrors from things that go bump on the television screen continue. Recent dispatches from the cultural wars:
02.22.99
When it comes to chemical threats, ignorance just isn't bliss
Ombudsman Forty million men, women and children in the United States live in the shadow of 66,000 plants harboring chemicals that could kill or maim indiscriminately if they escaped into the air we breathe.
02.15.99
Trampling freedom in a cyberpanic
Ombudsman It often appears that the nation's newspapers are peering into cyberspace through the wrong end of a telescope. In such an inverted view of the online world, where vagrant bits and pieces and bright flashes are made more ominous by distance, a cyberpanic sets in. The Internet looms in the lens as more threat than promise.
02.09.99
Fear of sex translates into laws on what we can say and show
Ombudsman Food can cause problems, too, but you don't see laws proposed to restrict pictures of food online.
02.01.99
Senate fiddles in secret while public burns
Ombudsman A good part of the reason most of us remember that riveting and remarkable 1990 public television series
01.25.99
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