The New York Times has a public editor, an ombudsman-like role, currently filled by Clark Hoyt. He has just written an article where he examines the same problem we face with BLPs of marginal figures:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/opinion/26pubed.html
It's exciting to see sources coming to grips with the problems we've been dealing with for a while. Interesting that they only get one complaint a day; I gather our numbers are higher.
William