> The report said that White House officials "strongly objected" to accusations that they did not favour disclosure, and cited statistics showing that Obama gav

> The report said that White House officials "strongly objected" to accusations that they did not favour disclosure, and cited statistics showing that Obama gave more interviews in news, entertainment and digital media in the first four plus years iin office than President George W Bush and Bill Clinton did in their respective first terms, combined. What a bunch of crap. Cherry-picked QA sessions are wholly irrelevant to policy transparency and accountability. This is a very interesting quote from the article: > The CPJ has made several recommendations to the administration, including [...] to guarantee that journalists will not be at risk from prosecution for receiving confidential and/or classified information. Recently there has been a lot of rustling about redefining who are journalists and restricting/eliminating protections of "illegitimate" journalists. Surely this quote will run directly contrary to who can be considered a journalist, especially since Senator Feinstein (of pro-surveillance notoriety) has come out against the notion that anybody with blog should be afforded the same legal protections as "legitimate" journalists. Or, more to the point, anybody with a blog could be provided legal immunity after having been recipient of classified information for the purposes of journalistic publication.