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</li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1179546,00.html" class="link-text">Now tell us what you really think</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> This page means you can air your views the minute you have them </div> <ul class="sublinks"> <li class="bullet last"> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/talk" class="link-text"> <strong>Observer talk:</strong> observer.co.uk/talk</a> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Corrections </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/series/for-the-record" class="link-text">For the record</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> The Observer's weekly corrections and clarifications column </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Readers' editor column </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/series/observer-readers-editor" class="link-text">The readers' editor on ...</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> Read Observer readers' editor <strong>Stephen Pritchard's</strong> latest columns here </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Gender issues </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/" class="link-text">The readers' editor on ... the media's missing women</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Women - half the world's population - are barely present in the faces seen, voices heard and opinions expressed in the world's media, claimed a report published last week. <strong>Who Makes the News?</strong> made shaming reading </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> New look Observer </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1702686,00.html" class="link-text">The readers' editor on... the Observer's new look</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>'Like a girl I used to know: lovely to look at and lovely to hold, but the flaws are found later,' is just one wry remark among the many thousands of emails and letters bristling with both praise and condemnation for the Observer's new, full-colour format </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Beefing up </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/apr/17/pressandpublishing.comment" class="link-text">A misleading message in a bottle</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Newspapers employ several devices to persuade you to read a story, headlines and photographs being the most obvious </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Accuracy </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1635532,00.html" class="link-text">Liam Lawlor</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> Two weeks ago, the Observer published a story about the death in Moscow of Irish MP Liam Lawlor. Last week, we apologised for key elements in the story and announced that we were conducting an internal inquiry into the story. Here, our Readers' Editor <strong>Stephen Pritchard</strong> explains what happened. </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/29/animalwelfare.world" class="link-text">Two sides to animal rights story</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Eye witnesses swore our report of a stormy meeting was false. So what was the truth? </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Advertising-editorial clashes </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1391632,00.html" class="link-text">No words from our sponsors</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Journalists striving to be balanced and fair are used to accusations of bias when their writing doesn't chime with the views of a particular pressure group or lobby. When their work is linked to advertising the problem multiplies 10-fold </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1340239,00.html" class="link-text">A question of taste</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> The shocking story of Danielle Beccan, gunned down as she walked home from a Nottingham fair, made the Observer 's front page recently </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Cooking </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1366816,00.html" class="link-text">Popeye's revenge</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Spinach rarely crosses the readers' editor's radar, but my ceaseless desire to represent you found me phoning my local Sainsbury's last weekend, ordering 6 kgs of the stuff </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Mental illness and families </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/aug/15/health.lifeandhealth" class="link-text">Don't blame the messenger</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Parents coping with the distress of schizophrenia in their children have been caused further pain, a well-organised campaign would have us believe, by a series of articles in the Observer Magazine </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Living our values </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/values/0,,1166317,00.html" class="link-text">Living our values website launched</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> guardian.co.uk has launched a new section called Living our values which looks at how we as an organisation measure up to the high standards outlined by the Scott Trust which owns us </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Unsuitable subjects </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1258563,00.html" class="link-text">We published and we were damned</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong> Our celebrity antennae slipped off-station last month when we chose music entrepreneur Jonathan King - a convicted paedophile - for our regular diet feature, Health Check </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Sub-editing </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1212766,00.html" class="link-text">When local feelings must be respected</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Every piece in this newspaper goes through a rigorous editing process: nobody's copy is sacred. But there is sometimes a danger that 'improvements' can spill over into misrepresentation </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1061174,00.html" class="link-text">Anoraks? That's not our style</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> The rules that govern how The Observer wields its hyphens, dashes and accents are being rewritten </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,992673,00.html" class="link-text">The true story behind the headline</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Headline writing is an art. Look through the paper today and you will find heavy hitters on news and business stories, softer, more reflective examples on features, and a sprinkling of witty puns, particularly on arts and comment pages </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Freedom of the press </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1148640,00.html" class="link-text">Damned by statistics</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Whether we believe the Hutton report to be a whitewash or a balanced and rational judgment, journalism is under attack as never before </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Iran earthquake </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/jan/04/comment.iran" class="link-text">Dignity in death</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Was the Observer right last week to publish a front-page photograph of two children - victims of the Iranian earthquake - being carried to their graves by their grieving father? </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Body shape </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/nov/09/health.lifeandhealth" class="link-text">Cruel pursuit of stick women</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>The media's notion that thinliness is next to godliness plays havoc with vulnerable young minds </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Media watchdogs </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/21/iraq.stephenpritchard" class="link-text">Organs of mass distortion?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Our ombudsman joins media watchdogs worldwide to ask how well the war in Iraq was reported </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Plagiarism </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,968223,00.html" class="link-text">Who owns the truth?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> Reader's editor <strong>Stephen Pritchard</strong> says that all newspapers and journalists must feed off each other. So when does that become plagiarism? </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> Dirty tricks at the UN </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/09/iraq1" class="link-text">Our spy story spelt conspiracy to some</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>The everyday use of a piece of simple computer technology placed this newspaper at the centre of a storm last week, prompting a record number of visits to our website </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> More comment and reaction </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/mar/09/Iraqandthemedia.comment" class="link-text">Stop dodging the awkward truth</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> US media commentator <strong>Norman Solomon</strong> asks why the American media seems keen to downplay allegations of espionage at the United Nations </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/09/usa.iraq" class="link-text">And nation shall speak peace onto nation</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Martin Bright</strong> reflects on the reaction to last week's Observer dirty tricks scoop and finds that the quality of transatlantic dialogue can be quite quickly improved </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> How the Observer broke the story </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/02/usa.iraq" class="link-text">Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/02/iraq.unitednations1" class="link-text">The leaked memo</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> The text of the memorandum detailing the US plan to bug the phones and emails of key Security Council members, as revealed in the Observer </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> The Observer on Iraq </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/feb/09/iraq" class="link-text">Considering the editorial line</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Just how are decisions reached about what goes in and what stays out of the Observer? </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jan/19/leaders.politics" class="link-text">Iraq: the case for decisive action</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Observer Leader</strong>: Military intervention in the Middle East holds many dangers. But if we want a lasting peace it may be the only option </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jan/26/letters.iraq1" class="link-text">What you say about our stand on Iraq</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> We received hundreds of letters and emails supporting and opposing the paper's position. We publish some of them here </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2003/jan/26/letters.iraq" class="link-text">Views from around the world</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> We received many emails on the Observer's leader last week from our international readership. Here is a selection of your views. </div> </div> </li> <li class="major-heading "> <h2> More from the Readers' editor </h2> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,868945,00.html" class="link-text">Battered clich茅s can mislead</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Definitions may be muddled in the hunt for the ideal headline </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,856140,00.html" class="link-text">Why we much prefer Saddam to Mr Hussein</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> Readers' editor <strong>Stephen Pritchard </strong>answers questions about our choice of words </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,841690,00.html" class="link-text">Why Rover's return is making us blush</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard</strong> puts paid to the errant apostrophe </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,792617,00.html" class="link-text">Censors and sensibilities</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard: </strong>Millions around the world wake up every day to the deadening hand of censorship; they go to the newsstand knowing that official bigotry will have got there before them </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,772574,00.html" class="link-text">Issue number 11,000 and counting</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> The Observer passes another multi-millenary milepost in its pursuit of truth and happiness </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,750899,00.html" class="link-text">Should we talk to criminals?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Yes, if it means exposing Hull's drug problems. Though John Prescott seems to disagree </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,710252,00.html" class="link-text">'Trust me, I'm a journalist...'</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> 'If we can't trust what the press report, how can we tell whether to trust those on whom they report?' asked Onora O'Neil in her BBC Reith lecture last week, a question neatly echoed - and partly answered - across the Atlantic as the dark clouds of press regulation begin to gather on the US horizon </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,680302,00.html" class="link-text">I remain, sir, Disgusted of America</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> 'It is not funny, satirical or even amusing and shows disrespect for those who died'... 'Your callousness is breathtaking'... 'The most tasteless item of journalism I have ever read.' </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,661155,00.html" class="link-text">Who do we think you are?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> Newspapers are often accused of making glib assumptions about readers, but the industry actually spends a lot of time and money trying to understand its consumers </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/feb/03/letters.stephenpritchard1" class="link-text">So, you want to write to the editor</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> There's an art to getting your letter printed in a newspaper... stick to the point and don't use green ink </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,587475,00.html" class="link-text">When we're good...</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> we're very good, you say. But then we go and spoil it all. Many of you praised our coverage of the campaign against terrorism </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/07/terrorism.afghanistan9" class="link-text">It depends on what you mean by war</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> 'The first casualty when war comes is truth,' said Hiram Warren Johnson in a speech to the US Senate in 1917. He might have added that the second is language </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,532682,00.html" class="link-text">The past and future of the Observer</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> How much do you know about your paper? A new project to bring the history to life </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,515149,00.html" class="link-text">Are facts so sacred?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> My postbag bulges, my email queue fills up and my telephone rings off its cradle whenever we take a careless metropolitan view of the rest of the nation </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,500563,00.html" class="link-text">Slicing up the cake</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> 'Yours is one of a number of papers which regularly produces sections which are of great interest to some of your readers but of no interest to others,' writes a searingly honest Open University environmental studies student </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,486608,00.html" class="link-text">Does our hero worship devalue real heroes?</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> What do we mean by the word 'hero'? It's a favourite term in the newspaper trade; it's instantly recognisable, and, alleluia, it's short - a gift for any headline writer </div> </div> </li> <li class="normal last"> <div class="trail-caption"> <div class="linktext"> <h3> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100522005727/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,466634,00.html" class="link-text">A gentler awareness</a> </h3> </div> <div class="trailtext"> <strong>Stephen Pritchard:</strong> David Astor once said: 'A newspaper matters only because it has the right readers and has a grip on them... 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