Bush Administration Looking To Weaken Journalists Right To Ask

[JABBS]

The Bush Administration has provided a $1 million grant to a Texas Law School, to do research aimed at rolling back the amount of data available to the public through freedom-of-information requests.

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What's really going on? Conservatives are once again looking for ways to restrict the power of what they see as a liberal, anti-Bush press. Other conservatives have been talking up re-establishing a U.S. Office of Censorship, seemingly for similar reasons.

Over the past four years, the Republican-led Congress has closed some meetings and restricted some access to records for fear of making information available to terrorists, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Va.

Irrational fear? Possibly. A back-handed way to obstruct what they see as "liberal media bias?" Absolutely.

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[texastoast]

1. St. Mary's

A religious school.

[Double T]

2. Obstructing a 'liberal media bias' that does not exist OR.......

obstructing prosecution and justice under our former constitution.

[rodeodance]

3. tax payer $ to do this. whow.

[Ilsa]

4. FOIA:

"Please send me all of your information on funding of CIA assets in the Middle East.
Sincerely,
Al Kada."

Sure. Right. They'll devise something like this to present a "need" for doing this for our security. And they'll scare us into believing we need militia in the streets every day, and someone to monitor our email.

[JABBS]

7. absolutely

you understand how absurd this is.

[KansDem]

5. Ask what? I'm still waiting for someone to ask Bush about 9/11...

Why he did nothing when told we were under attack. So far, no "reporter," "journalist," or "media watchdog" has asked.

I'd ask but:
1) I can't get to DC--no $$$
2) I wouldn't be issued a press pass for a presidential press conference--even though Jeff Gannon was
3) I don't think I'd be given a chance to ask--not part of the script.
4) I'm not a professional "journalist," "reporter," or "media watchdog" type.

It appears that having the right to ask, and actually using that right are two different animals.

edited for clarity

[NVMojo]

6. I hate those fecksticks in the white house ...

hate them, hate them ...