This is kinda cool.
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OK, I still think the Palin e-mail deal was a collossal waste of journalistic firepower, but…
Posted on June 15, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
And the Democracy Gently Weeps: Jon Stewart on Palin E-Mails…
Posted on June 14, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
Well played, Mr. Stewart…well played.
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Thanks to mindless Palin e-mail feeding frenzy, at least…
Posted on June 10, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
People are suddenly paying attention to FOI….and finding that, shock of shock, they are withholding all the good stuff.
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One Good Thing from the Palin EMail Crapola…
Posted on June 10, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
From Propublica: Initial estimate of the cost to produce the e-mails: $15 million ACTUAL COST: $725 per media org cd
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Holy Mother of Gawd: It’s Sarah Palin’s E-mails!
Posted on June 10, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
With the intensity typically reserved for tsunamis, coronation or world war, our nation’s news media stand poised, ready for the three-years-late release of then-Gov. Sarah Palin’s trove of e-mail. The fact that this story is (1) so old it grows mold, that (2) it has less than no meaningful news value as the woman is [...]
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Perhaps the World’s First Protest Against FOI?
Posted on April 19, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
If anyone has pictures of protesters with signs from this rally, which reportedly was held today….I’d love to see ‘em. One University of Michigan faculty member wants to make sure university leaders take great care in responding to the controversial Freedom of Information Act requests filed by theMackinac Center late last month. Ian Robinson, a lecturer in the Department [...]
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Nice FOI-driven sports story…Tennessee’s AD Gets Peppered by Donor E-Mails…
Posted on April 18, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
Note to journalists everywhere: sometimes you don’t need names to tell a great FOI tale…. A six-figure University of Tennessee donor called the school’s chancellor an “attack gator” because of his ties to the University of Florida and another called its athletic director “self-serving” and “inept.” Those comments were among more than a dozen email [...]
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More on the Academic Freedom-FOI Flap….
Posted on March 30, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
Newsy has a nice rundown… And Jack Shafer, as is so often the case, makes the point so, so, so much better than I have. Here’s the money graf: Take, for example, the lawsuit filed against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by the Associated Press and the Madison, Wis., Isthmus after his team ignored open records requests for [...]
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The Academic FOI Story Just Grew Rather Exponentially…
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
Talking Points Memo has the news on the latest in the email labor wars, as the issue really heats up the FOI landscape. I’ll say at the beginning what I have been saying on the phone to reporters all day: these are lawful FOI requests from public, taxpayer funded institution. I’m not about to take [...]
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An FOI Request = The New American Thought Police? See, This is why I was Worried About Blowback…
Posted on March 27, 2011 by Charles N. Davis
Krugman in the Times today: So we don’t need to worry about Mr. Cronon — but we should worry a lot about the wider effect of attacks like the one he’s facing. Legally, Republicans may be within their rights: Wisconsin’s open records law provides public access to e-mails of government employees, although the law was [...]
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