The Boston Globe ombudsperson -- and the critics who complained to her -- get it exactly wrong when they go after Globe tech reporter Hiawatha Bray for expressing his political opinions in comments on blogs.
I say we should be celebrating his openness, his transparency, his honesty -- for now his critics are free to disagree with what he says and thinks -- not just what they think he thinks.
Oh, I know that's a minority opinion -- even sometimes a reviled one -- in the halls of journalism. But I have come to believe that journalists' refusal to acknowledge that they are human and are citizens and have opinions is a sort of lie by omission and we have to find better ways to deal with it than gagging them.
Transparency and responsibility. The Globe seems to want neither. I want both.
