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SOUNDS LIKE BOB WOODWARD'S GOT HIS TIT CAUGHT IN A BIG FAT WRINGER ON THIS ONE

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'Post' Ombud: Woodward Saga Inspired Very Negative Reader Response

By Joe Strupp Published: November 17, 2005 12:55 PM ET

NEW YORK Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell has received hundreds of calls and e-mails from readers since yesterday's revelations about Bob Woodward's involvement in the Valerie Plame case, and none of them are positive.

"I am getting a lot of reaction and, from readers, it is all bad," Howell told E&P today, referring to the fallout from Woodward's disclosure that he spoke to a confidential White House source about Plame in 2003. "We are being barraged with calls. They think it was wrong for him not to tell his editors and wrong for the Post not to tell readers."

The ombudsman also pointed out that the e-mails "are all very different. I have not seen [an organized] campaign."

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