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December 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:53 AM

New federal rules make school records more secret

The U.S. Department of Education released new rules last week regarding education records that would allow schools to keep records secret, even with all identifiers removed, if they think that someone in the school could figure out who the record
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Monday, December 08, 2008 9:44 PM

Detroit reporter pleads the Fifth to protect source

Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter pled the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination today to avoid revealing confidential sources. Ashenfelter had promised anonymity to a source who told him that a federal prosecutor was being investigated
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:08 PM

U.S. general orders merger of NATO Afghan PIO office with Psy Ops

Most of us don't cover beats in Afghanistan, but a story by Reuters about U.S. efforts to combine public relations with the psychological warfare and propaganda arm of the military gives me the willies and should make journalists everywhere more skeptical
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:55 PM

Disturbing trend: closed police reports

Johnny Edwards, SPJ sunshine chair from Georgia, reports several instances of police making basic crime reports secret. This is a big problem. In an analysis of 32 state access audits, I found that about 71 percent of the time police illegally deny
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