This is a detailed article by Expose, starting off with some of the excuses reporters hear: In 2005, the Associated Press collected and published a list of novel excuses government officials used to deny FOIA requests, many of which failed the "my dog ate my homework" test. The list included,…
As you can read at FreePress.net, the Senate appropriations subcommittee has provided $420 million in advance funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for FY 2010. Mirroring its House counterpart, this represents the first increase to this critical line-item in four years. The subcommittee also provided level funding of $29.7…
Are they looking for someone with a conscience who will lead a team that will speak with passion and conscience? Are they looking for someone who bases his or her writing on deep principles, letting the chips fall where they may? Keep in mind that this is the modern version of the Post-Dispatch…
At Salon.com, Glen Greenwald describes it like this: If even our Beltway media -- rather, especially them -- argues that criminality by government officials should not be punished, and that light should not be shined on what they do, then pervasive government corruption and deceit are inevitable. That is just…
At the National Conference for Media Reform in January, FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps challenged the thousands of people attending to enact a new “American Media Contract.” I think he did a good job of summing up the problems with big media. He proposed replacing the “bad old bargain that past…