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(The Times' efforts to get its articles to pop up first in internet searches is leading to a perplexing problem: long buried information about people that was wrong, outdated or incomplete is getting new life. What should the paper do?)

(A front¬page article on roadside bombs used to attack U.S. forces in Iraq is assailed by some readers as playing into efforts by the Bush Administration to gin up hostility toward Iran. The Public Editor finds that the piece lacks evidence and context that had appeared more than four months earlier in the paper. Readers can't be expected to remember. Complicating matters, the central point of the latest article is elusive)

(The Rev. Jesse Jackson is caught on a live mike saying he would like to cut Barack Obama's "nuts off." The Times refuses to print the exact words Jackson used. I would have published the quote, as did many other news outlets, but paper's editors are trying to maintain civil discourse in uncivil times)

(The New York Times Co. threatens to shut down The Boston Globe, which it owns, amid a labor dispute and plunging circulation and revenue. The Times buries the story)