Ombudsman Blog - Post Editor Ends Tweets as New Guidelines Are Issued
A prerequisite for reporting “hard” news is fact. If what you get paid for contains the facts, then you have done your job. Far be it from me to tell someone that they have to forgo having an opinion on matters that they have to deal with day in and day out.
I think this is completely ridiculous.
As tweets on Twitter, they’re pretty innocuous.
“We can incur all sorts of federal deficits for wars and what not,” read a recent one. “But we have to promise not to increase it by $1 for healthcare reform? Sad.”
What makes these tweets significant is that they were written by Raju Narisetti, one of The Post’s top editors.
They were “personal” observations, he said. “But I also realize that… seeing that the managing editor of The Post is weighing in on this, it’s a clear perception problem.” He has closed his Twitter account.
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