Helen Thomas, Chip Reid Question White House Control of Media

Helen Thomas, long-time fixture of the White House press corps, took issue with Robert Gibbs' today, double-teaming with CBS' Chip Reid on the issue of the pre-packaging of questions for President Obama's town...

Obama Closes Doors on Openness

Obama has reverted to a Bush policy that he had decried as a senator and that is in apparent violation of his stated policy on Transparency and Open Government.  " My Administration is committed to creating...

Public needs access to electronic records says Ont. appeal court

The Ontario Court of Appeal, in a 3-0 decision issued January 13, has ruled that municipal governments must make available electronic records that the public is entitled to see under freedom of information even if it means developing new software to do so. The case was...

Chaos in the World and the Jewish New Year Begins a New Life Cycle.

The holiday season is upon us in Israel. There is a light headedness that appears in the air as if everyone I see is walking just a few inches off the ground. There is an openness of spirit that I sense in the...

On Organizing Media and Organizing a Conference

[Cross-posted at PBS.org/Idealab.] At Journalism That Matters "The New Pamphleteers," held earlier this week in Minneapolis, every session meant horizontal communication: no one on a stage, a circle of chairs...

International Day Against Homophobia

Yesterday was International Day Against Homophobia- I learned about it through the article below: an event in Havana, Cuba.I thought this was pretty big news. A symposium on same-sex health issues, featuring...

House Votes To Disclose Earmarks

"The House voted yesterday to shed more light on narrow-interest tax and spending legislation called earmarks, an incremental step toward openness that ended the prospect for a more sweeping overhaul of federal...

Rights Groups Win Release of Abu Ghraib Photos

A federal judge yesterday found that lawyers for the federal government failed to prove their assertion that privacy and national security should trump the public's right to know when it comes to...

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