White House reporters are drumming for increased access to campaigns by releasing a document with revised rules for treatment of the press. The White House Correspondents’ Association wants greater access particularly more opportunities to question Obama directly. (Politico, April 22, 2015, by Dylan Byers)
Association president Christi Parsons has vigorously fought White House secrecy and their push to control what and how information gets to the public. “The proliferation of social media presents a great challenge. Officials have more options than ever to tell their own story directly to the people. There’s nothing wrong with that, except when it threatens to get in the way of their openness with the free, independent and adversarial press. It takes constant vigilance to stay on top of that, as the next threat always comes from something we hadn’t heard of six months prior,” said Parsons. (The Poynter Institute, April 24, 2015, by James Warren)
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