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« on: July 10, 2015, 09:56:08 PM »Tweeted by @charlesornstein
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"FOIA reform: A bit too much transparency for journalists?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/07/10/foia-reform-a-bit-too-much-transparency-for-journalists/
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Make it public, I say. #opengov is #opengov. FOIA reform: A bit too much transparency for journalists? nzzl.us/yRgiTuA
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"FOIA reform: A bit too much transparency for journalists?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/07/10/foia-reform-a-bit-too-much-transparency-for-journalists/
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From The Washington Post’s Lisa Rein comes news that the federal government is launching a six-month pilot program with seven agencies to post online documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). “So if a journalist, nonprofit group or corporation asks for the records, what they see, the public also will see,” writes Rein.