JEFF JARVIS comments on New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent’s maiden column. Jeff’s commenters find it a far more disappointing effort than Jeff does.

I had the same experience with Okrent’s email, below, where my readers were harder on Okrent than I was. Interestingly, I think it’s because my expectations for Okrent are so low, while the readers’ are high. I want to see some sign of progress at the Times, while they want to see actual, honest and competent journalism, and they want to see Okrent take the Times to task the way a blogger would, when it fails to deliver.

I think the readers are right, and that I’ve been expecting too little.