By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--September 1, 2016
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"Jim Rutenberg criticized the leading presidential candidates for their lack of transparency, but did not acknowledge the important and unprecedented steps that the Obama administration has taken to fulfill the president’s promise to lead the most transparent White House in history. These accomplishments include, but are not limited to, routinely and proactively releasing the name, date and time of nearly every White House visitor. Some will recall that the previous administration went to the Supreme Court to try to prevent the release of these records. President Obama, as a matter of policy, invites White House journalists to cover his formal remarks at fund-raisers, even when they are held in a private home. Previous presidents have granted, at best, intermittent access to such events."
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The Obama administration has also proactively released more than 180,000 data sets on a federal government website named, appropriately enough, Data.gov. This means that reporters and citizens have access to mind-boggling amounts of data — that they may not even have known existed — without having to formally request it.Oh sure, if you want to get down into the real numbers you'll have to lawyer up and jump through a bunch of hoops nut that's just nitpicking. As always, the mainstream media is just out to get Obama, and Earnest thinks they should be doing a better job of printing the sorts of things they're supposed to print.
If journalists don’t acknowledge steps that the Obama administration has taken to strengthen transparency, then who will?Who indeed.
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