By: E&P Staff Along with his hard-hitting column this weekend that described The Washington Post's 'salon' debacle as an "ill-fated plan," Ombudsman Andy Alexander also posted on his blog e-mailed suggestions from a handful of former editors and newspaper observers about what the paper should do next.
The ideas were in reaction to the recently canceled plan for paid off-the-record gatherings with journalists, D.C. officials and other notables at the home of Publisher Katharine Weymouth.
E-mails ranged from former Los Angeles Times Editor John Carroll declaring "Publishers are like everyone else. Improbable as it might seem, they're human," to Tom Fiedler, former editor of The Miami Herald and currently dean of the college of communications at Boston University stating: "I would strongly advise against going forward with any 'salons' at the publisher's manse if the 'salon' entails a profit motive."
The entire blog post can be found
here.
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