The AP should really do what Bloomberg News does. Bloomberg writes their own stories, and the authors put their direct e-mail and phone numbers on the bottom. People can call in to clarify or make corrections, and they often do. It also keeps a lot of bias out of the stories, since the authors know they’d get harassed if they become too partisan.
I think there was a Chicago columnist who wrote a column about how he resented that his contact information was given out and he outright declared that he could care less what his critics thought of his political opinions.