Take, for example, Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post . He admits he hasn't read any of our public journalism work. Judging from his column, not anything we're actually doing here at The Observer . Mr. Yardley isn't alone in his horror. First, a disclaimer.
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At The Observer , public journalism is simply this. We try to confine advocacy to the editorial page. On both opinion and news pages, we value citizen voices. In a recent interview published in The Washingtonian , David Broder of the Washington Post described one problem we're trying to address. We're now correcting that by putting voters back at the center of the process.