Taking Out The Trash

• WaPo ombudsman Andrew Alexander is making up for lost time. He says in Sunday’s paper, “A broken system is being fixed.” Corrections dating back to 2007 and 2008 have appeared in the paper the past few weeks to correct a problem at the paper Alexander addressed about a month ago- a backlog of hundreds of requests going back five years.

• The nonpartisan research group Center for Media and Public Affairs along with California’s Chapman University released a study that found the nightly newscasts devoted 27 hours, 44 minutes to Pres.