Lucy Dalglish
Lucy Dalglish
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you can also argue that the media did a lot to rehabilitate his reputation in recent years. A lot of people feel sorry for him.
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People clearly think that their federal government is more secretive than state or local governments. And they are probably right. It has become more difficult to get information out of the federal government.
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The Supreme Court has said that criminal proceedings are public. In this country, we don't prosecute and lock up convicts and have no public track record of how we got there. That violates the defendants' rights not to mention the public's right to know what it's court system is doing.
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While weve always had a certain number of federal prosecutors going after journalists, were seeing a different type of phenomenon the federal employee whos been wronged. If you can somehow compel the journalists to be agents of discovery, its going to have a chilling effect, ... This is very troubling.
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We're delighted that the Knight Foundation has recognized the valuable contributions the Reporters Committee has made to the public's right to know. Reporters all over the country will benefit from the continuation and expansion of the programs this grant will support.
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I think this has an absolute chilling effect.
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I'd be very loath to be critical of what Judith did,
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When you have more and more information being classified, and more and more secrets being kept, the only way reporters can get information is when internal whistleblowers provide it. And that drives this administration crazy.
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The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, ... and when reporters are involved, I'm just gritting my teeth.
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It's certainly not dead. It's just been put on the back-burner. We know they're still interested. ... They've just become preoccupied.
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What these open government laws do is break down that wall of government secrecy so that everybody knows what's going on. A democracy can only function if we have information. You can only have oversight of government if you have information.
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There is no question that there are more restrictions coming down. There is rampant secrecy in both federal and state courtrooms.
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This is pretty much exactly where I thought we would be a year ago when all of this started to happen.
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Once you turn your hard drives over to a government entity and they have your computers, they essentially have access to the newsroom.