Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Reporters Without Borders - Press Freedom Index 2011-2012

Norway first, Austria did surprisingly well at fifth place, and the 'leader of the free world' USA shares place 47 with Argentina and Romania

From Reporters Without Borders


Tuesday, May 10, 2011

AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Evidence

From Prison Planet and the Atlantic

President Obama’s decision to withhold the visual evidence of Osama bin Laden’s death has created a fundamental disagreement between the White House and one of the largest journalism organizations in the world. “This information is important for the historical record,” said Michael Oreskes, senior managing editor at The Associated Press. “That’s our view.”

Last Monday, the AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the photographic and video evidence taken during the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The organization’s FOIA request included a reminder of the president’s campaign pledge and a plea to be more transparent than his predecessor. ”The Obama White House ‘pledged to be the most transparent government in U.S. history,” wrote the AP, “and to comply much more closely with the Freedom of Information Act than the Bush administration did.’”


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