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With fewer humans handling stories, (only) the computer is t…

Errors in “Around the County” stories in last Monday’s city and final editions show how much this business has changed in the 25 years since I started as a reporter for The San Diego Union.

When I covered education, I remember watching in horror as the late Walter McArthur, then an assistant city editor and later the newspaper’s first ombudsman, held a ruler to pages of my prose that had been glued into a long strip. He ripped my story in half.

Those were the days of manual typewriters, rubber cement and Teletype machines; of copy editing…

What I’d like to see under The Star-Telegram’s tree…

May each of you, dear readers, be blessed during this holiday season. May your cup runneth over with love for others and for yourselves.

I did not want to weigh you down with heavy reading this Christmas Day. So while I was debating whether to even write a column, my guardian angel whispered, “Why don’t you tell them what an ombudsman would like to find under his tree today.”

Good idea, G.A. So here are gifts I would have like to have for myself and my colleagues. Note these are all non-material gifts, but they are…

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