A caller today chastised us for repeating false stories about the messy Bill Clinton-George W. Bush transition.

A front-page story on presidential transitions in today’s Post-Dispatch says of the Clinton-Bush transition: “The handoff proved somewhat less harmonious weeks later, when the…

Friday morning’s Post-Dispatch carried three disturbing paragraphs about brutalized effigies of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin — and two readers told me they detected political bias in the editing of those 61 words.

The Post-Dispatch item on the effigies appeared as…

A few readers complained about our display of a couple presidential politics stories this past weekend.

On Saturday, we ran a 6-inch story “Alaska investigator finds Palin abused her power” on Page A20. A reader who said he favors Obama thought…

Sunday’s New York Times featured a lengthy Page One article examining Sarah Palin’s style of governing. The Times’ headlines reflect the premise: “Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes. Governor’s Style of Politics is Highly Personal.”

The Post-Dispatch published a reduced version of…

Our Metro editors did a bit of an editing dance last night with the story about the anti-porn group taking on St. Louis County libraries. The local branch of Citizens Against Pornography has a list of books it says contains sexually explicit language unsuitable…

The lead headline in Monday’s paper infuriated a number of readers.

“McCain, new sidekick a hit at O’Fallon rally.”

“Totally disrespectful” one reader told me.  She said “sidekick” is a word that should be reserved for comedy acts.

Another offered that maybe we…

I just returned from a week’s vacation (to Memphis) and listened to about two dozen voice mails from readers of the Post-Dispatch. Three were complaints about photos that appeared on the front page. One caller said we “missed the story”…

We have linked on STLtoday to the Facebook page of slain firefighter Ryan Hummert, as a means of providing more information about him.

STLtoday has added a link to another Facebook page of remembrances of Mr. Hummert.

The whole area was rocked this morning by…

A reader — also a frequent participant in STLtoday online conversations — wondered why we used the photo we used in this morning’s Post-Dispatch with the political brief about the controversy over the satirical New Yorker cover.

The photo we used didn’t…

I’ve received a few — four at noon — calls from readers livid over our coverage and display of Pope Benedict XVI’s historic first visit to the United States.

“I am deeply ashamed,” read our top headline.

Smaller label words atop that headline said:…