Print Edition Archives Site Index Changing The Weather Michael Getler is The Post's ombudsman. Suddenly last Tuesday, it became half a page. Gone from the smaller map are big tourist destinations such as New York and the Outer Banks. Gone from the tables are two dozen or so U.S. and foreign cities.
Smaller type makes it all harder to read.
People are also upset because The Post didn't explain the changes when they first appeared. You do a disservice to a proud newspaper . . . People genuinely resent an advertiser buying up space that formerly provided useful information to the subscription-paying reader. This was badly handled and explained. On Saturday, March 24, a Metro front-page story reported that one of Washington's most prominent preachers had apologized after using an offensive term to refer to lesbians in a speech earlier in the month to a group of African American ministers and some openly gay church workers.