Thursday, September 08, 2016

COMMENTARY (on)_ Vox: If The Clinton Email Scandal Has Taught Us Nothing Else, It's That Email Should Be Exempt From FOIA Requests

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Vox: If The Clinton Email Scandal Has Taught Us Nothing Else, It's That Email Should Be Exempt From FOIA Requests

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Journalism
by Tim Cushing
Thu, Sep 8th 2016 8:30am

You don't often see a journalist argue for more government secrecy. In fact, you never see this. This makes Matt Yglesias' piece for Vox more than an oddity.

His argument for a broad FOIA exemption covering the single most-used form of government communications appears to be motivated by two things:

1. His belief that nearly anything critical of Hillary Clinton is overblown.

2. He doesn't like talking on the phone.

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Yglesias has dug himself into a hole with this article. He'll presumably keep his head down when politicians he doesn't care for start making noise about "too much transparency." This post shows he's not quite the journalist he believes he is and his ignorance of the reality of the FOIA process is on full display. In support of god-knows-what, Yglesias is calling for the most common method of government communication to become the government's most-used FOIA dodge. That's a dangerous proposal, especially when issued by a self-professed member of the Fourth Estate, whose job it is to help rein in the government and hold it accountable -- not give it more ideas on how to hide stuff from the people paying for it.

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This "journalist" maybe "deserving" to work in the communist countries like China or Vietnam việt cộng !


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