Media clubs denounce descending veil of Obamian secrecy and opacity

............and considering it was the media that shoehorned him into office, that's something.

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/07/08-1
38 Journalism Groups Urge President to Stop Excessive Controls on Public Information

....“Our members find that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency press staff routinely block them from getting needed information — even in a public health crisis, even when the agency is rolling out new regulations and it's important to localize the story,” said Beth Parke, executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists. “Anytime officials suppress information or downplay scientific findings, they are interfering with the public’s right to know. When reporters are ignored, and access is denied, news stories suffer and the public is cheated”......

Yeah, "news stories suffer and the public is cheated" -- and it sounds like lives and even ecologies are put in danger?

The feds were just scheming to boot independent journalists into outer space by requiring licensing -- one might almost say embedding -- of reporters and editors. Gee, wouldn't it be fun to know how the Society of Environmental Journalists feels about that? Are they for it, or are they "it"?

Curiously missing from the list of organizations: the National Press Club in Washington.

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