[neverdem]

My Web journal can be found at nytimes.com/byroncalame.

I'm not too optimistic. The Wall Street Journal's news pages was definitely for the underdog.

[SIDENET]

Greater transparency, I believe, can help you as readers better understand the news judgments that shape each day's paper

They're pretty transparent right now. They just don't know it.

Stick a fork in 'em.

[Publius6961]

A fool's errand.
In order for any MSM organ to regain public trust and confidence is to keep their news and editorial articles separate, to report news, not opinion, and to remember always that they are Americans first and newspeople second.

It's not unprecedented. The two ideas are not mutually exclusive. Up through the Korean War, that was exactly how MSM functioned.

There is no doubt in my mind that becoming "internationally neutral" (and thereby providing aid and comfort to the enemy) has cost us many thousands of American lives since.

Something I don't see changing anytime soon.

[Maceman]

serving as a watchdog over the paper's journalistic integrity.

Which should not take very long, as the paper HAS no journalistic integrity.

[wvobiwan]

New coat of paint for the old Edsel...

Trade it in for the web...

[purpleland]

*My Web journal can be found at nytimes.com/byroncalame.*

"I'm not too optimistic. The Wall Street Journal's news pages was definitely for the underdog."

Strange that Calame wrote "actual"...

It's a "transparent" beginning for the NY Times - but fumigation works better and faster.

Before one can instigate "integrity control" one has to have a viseral sense of integrity.

[purpleland]

"I intend to post more actual reader e-mails..."

Calame's comment tends to imply there were less "actual reader e-mails" posted before...hummm!

The operative words being "actual reader"...suggesting that the NY Times has a fiction department.

[Doctor Raoul]

An ombudsman at the New York Times is like appointing a Chaplan at a bordello. As if there is anything anyone could say to make them stop what they're doing.