Green Energy
- Senator Presses For Info On Huma's 'special Gov't Status'
Yes, Mohammed, I'll leave the information on the corner in a Brown Paper Bag Senator Presses for Info on Huma's 'Special Gov't Status'Senator Chuck Grassley has sent two letters to the State Department to ask about Huma Abedin's...
- The Fcc Will Begin Investigating Bias In The Media (conservative Bias)
Did you know we are ruled by TV? From the Wall Street Journal via Ace: News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on...
- White House And Irs Exchanged Confidential Taxpayer Information
Somebody get this lady a fifth From the Daily Caller: Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House...
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Holder Will Meet With Press to Review His Commitment to Protecting and Defending First Amendment Politico Playbook reported:The Justice Department began contacting D.C. bureau chiefs of major print and broadcast news organizations yesterday to set...
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Obama’s Labor Dept. To Create Gov’t Sponsored ‘Labor News’ Agency? What is it called when a government creates a state-sponsored “news” agency, again? Ah yes, it’s called government propaganda. And that is what the...
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From Will at The Other News:A ‘Soviet-Style Power-Grab,’ to Squelch Bad Press for ObamaCare
The Department of Health and Human Services has released new guidelines on communications between department employees and the media. The guidelines evidently require all communications to be approved by the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. Also: no off-the-record communications.The media are not happy. The editor of FDA Webview & FDA Review writes (via Poynter; more here):The new formal HHS Guidelines on the Provision of Information to the News Media represent, to this 36-year veteran of reporting FDA news, a Soviet-style power-grab. By requiring all HHS employees to arrange their information-sharing with news media through their agency press office, HHS has formalized a creeping information-control mechanism that informally began during the Clinton Administration and was accelerated by the Bush and Obama administrations.The U.S. now takes a large step toward joining other information-controlling countries like my native Australia, where government employees who talk with the news media without permission commit a federal crime. I came to the U.S. in 1974 to escape this oppression.The HHS guidelines once again show that the purpose of a public information office is not to disseminate information to the public but to withhold information from the public.Since this came on the heels of an HHS official announcing that the agency is scuttling ObamaCare‘s long-term care entitlement, a.k.a. the “CLASS Act,” one wonders if there is a connection. Or maybe HHS is just motivated by a general fear that the more the public learns about ObamaCare, the less we will like it.
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- Senator Presses For Info On Huma's 'special Gov't Status'
Yes, Mohammed, I'll leave the information on the corner in a Brown Paper Bag Senator Presses for Info on Huma's 'Special Gov't Status'Senator Chuck Grassley has sent two letters to the State Department to ask about Huma Abedin's...
- The Fcc Will Begin Investigating Bias In The Media (conservative Bias)
Did you know we are ruled by TV? From the Wall Street Journal via Ace: News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on...
- White House And Irs Exchanged Confidential Taxpayer Information
Somebody get this lady a fifth From the Daily Caller: Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials, according to 2012 emails obtained by the House...
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Holder Will Meet With Press to Review His Commitment to Protecting and Defending First Amendment Politico Playbook reported:The Justice Department began contacting D.C. bureau chiefs of major print and broadcast news organizations yesterday to set...
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Obama’s Labor Dept. To Create Gov’t Sponsored ‘Labor News’ Agency? What is it called when a government creates a state-sponsored “news” agency, again? Ah yes, it’s called government propaganda. And that is what the...