tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8156173020872126492024-02-08T11:01:16.833-08:00Resources for LetterKathryn Foxhallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02858886101595215047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815617302087212649.post-36561887706764489122015-03-16T13:59:00.000-07:002017-03-14T13:34:24.827-07:00Resources on public affairs offices obstruction, etc.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Current Resources on “Censorship
through PIO”</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Compiled by Kathryn Foxhall, kfoxhall@verizon.net</span><br />
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White House</span></b><br />
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--A letter went to President Obama in 2014 from 38 groups:<br />
<a href="http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/spjworks/spj-in-the-news-white-house-letter-reaches-its-destination-and-then-some/">http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/spjworks/spj-in-the-news-white-house-letter-reaches-its-destination-and-then-some/</a><br />
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---A letter went to President Obama in 2015 from 53 groups:<br />
<a href="http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1368">http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1368</a><br />
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---Six people, including Paul Fletcher and myself, representing SPJ, SEJ and <br />
ASNE met with Josh Earnest in December 2015.<br />
<a href="http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1402">http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1402</a><br />
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----Note that a white paper and other materials were left for President <br />
Obama:<br />
<a href="http://www.spj.org/pdf/news/obama-restrictions-press-freedom-2015-12-15.pdf">http://www.spj.org/pdf/news/obama-restrictions-press-freedom-2015-12-15.pdf</a><br />
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---The delegates were promised an answer, but we did not hear despite emails <br />
going back to Josh Earnest and his deputy from Paul Fletcher and Jennifer <br />
Royer, SPJ Communications Strategist.<br />
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---On August 30, Josh Earnest had a letter in the NYT asking journalists to <br />
give Obama credit for transparency.<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/opinion/give-obama-credit-for-government-transparency.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/opinion/give-obama-credit-for-government-transparency.html</a><br />
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---Stunned, SPJ quickly led in sending a letter back to Josh Earnest from 40 <br />
groups.<br />
<a href="http://spj.org/pdf/news/earnest-letter-09122016-final.pdf">http://spj.org/pdf/news/earnest-letter-09122016-final.pdf</a><br />
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---The letter from Paul Fletcher appeared in the NYT, Sept. 18<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/opinion/less-than-transparent-journalists-fault-obama.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/opinion/less-than-transparent-journalists-fault-obama.html?_r=0</a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">SPJ led over 60
journalism and other groups in asking the Trump administration to talk about
this and related issues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1484<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://sunshineweek.rcfp.org/pio-censorship-in-the-era-of-trump/"><span style="font-weight: normal;">PIO Censorship in the Era of Trump</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">SPJ’s editorial for Sunshine Week, 2017, underscores that the intense
message control apparatus built up over the last 20-25 years and used
extensively by prior presidents, now belongs to President Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---SPJ and 60 other
groups send letter to Trump transition, January 18, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">---Blog post on the SPJ
FOI. December 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Looking at 18 ways to
fight PIO censorship.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/foi/2016/12/12/18-ways-to-fight-censoring-pios/<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">---The Article in
Scientific American, October 2016, Charles Seife<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Seife does not address
the mandate to notify PIOs, but explores an incident that illustrating the
extreme control the FDA exerts over the media.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fda-manipulates-the-media/<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some publications are
showing courage<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">---</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Editorial in Raleigh
News Observer opposing PIO controls:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---Rundown of Wisconsin
PIO control policies:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://chippewa.com/special-treatment-or-limited-access/article_4edc5f57-787d-50d3-bb35-2b4c1bc1926b.html</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Editorial for Sunshine
Week Pleads with President Not to Leave These Controls in Place<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---An editorial on behalf of SPJ for Sunshine
Week says, “As the days dwindle down before the election and the campaign trail
hears some astoundingly authoritarian rhetoric, we have a special plea for the
President: Don’t leave these controls in place. We can’t know how they will be
used next year, much less in 20 years. We do know they have become rapidly more
intense over the last seven years.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://sunshineweek.rcfp.org/drastic-change-in-federal-culture-needed-to-end-suppression-of-information/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://sunshineweek.rcfp.org/drastic-change-in-federal-culture-needed-to-end-suppression-of-information/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">SPJ Surveys of Police
Reporters and Police PIOs</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Find the Same Type of
Restraints<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">---In
open comments section some police PIOs say they monitor all interviews with reporters,
“To ensure that the correct message is getting out” or To make sure the
appropriate information is provided and that the message is conveyed
appropriately.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Visit to the White House,
2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---A delegation from SPJ, ASNE and SEJ went to the White House and talked
to White House press secretary Josh Earnest about the censorship through PIOs
and the agencies and others holding briefings on background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Columbia Journalism
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---“Today’s federal agencies are ‘highly messaged controlled.’ Here’s
what it means for health reporting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---Article looks at the problems of getting information from government
agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2015 Letter to President
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---On August 10, 53 journalism and open government groups again asked
President Obama </span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">to change policies that constrict information
flow to the public, including prohibiting journalists from communicating with
staff without going through public information offices, vetting and monitoring
interviews.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Science Writers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---New survey sponsored by SPJ finds that science writers often face the
same restrictions as other reporters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---Washington Post story on lack of access cites SPJ’s surveys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/access-denied-reporters-say-federal-officials-data-increasingly-off-limits/2015/03/30/935b4962-c04b-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Letter to President
Obama<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">--July 8, 2014, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society
of Environmentalists led in sending a letter from 38 journalism and open
government groups to President Obama asking him to stop the excessive controls
on journalists, including the requirement to go through PIOs to speak to staff
members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The letter got extensive coverage including an editorial in USAToday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2014/07/14/fighting-obama-administrations-information-control/12628905/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2014/07/14/fighting-obama-administrations-information-control/12628905/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Listing of some of the news coverage:</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/spjworks/spj-in-the-news-white-house-letter-reaches-its-destination-and-then-some/"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/spjworks/spj-in-the-news-white-house-letter-reaches-its-destination-and-then-some/</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Editor and Publisher Op-Ed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">An op-ed says that over
the last 20 years this kind of censorship has become a cultural norm and that
the restraints are effective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/when-censorship-becomes-a-cultural-norm2014-05-15t11-11-19/<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Neiman Reports</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">June 12, 2014---“Public
health reporters say federal agencies are restricting access and information,
limiting their ability to cover crucial health issues.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/103106/Talk-to-the-Hand.aspx</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Op-Ed for
Sunshine Week, 2014</b><br />
---The National Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists posted
an op-ed for Sunshine Week saying these controls at all levels threaten the
foundations of democracy. Several outlets ran it, including Poynter.org, the
Buffalo News, and Cleveland.org. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://sunshineweek.rcfp.org/president-other-government-leaders-should-end-spin-control-culture/</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>News Event: Two
2014 Surveys Show the Problem Is Pervasive Nationally</b><br />
---NPC, SPJ and the Education Writers Association presented two new surveys on
press office interference done by Carolyn Carlson on March 19 at the National
Press Club. The reports are groundbreaking, illustrating the problem is
pervasive in many areas of the country, and in all sorts of entities. The
great majority of reporters said they felt the public is not getting the
information it needs because of the barriers. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1230</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The appendices with
reporters’ open-ended comments illustrate a tide of hard-ball obstruction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>House Website
on VA Stonewalling Reporters<br />
</b>--The House of Representatives Veterans Committee started a website on VA
facilities stonewalling reporters prior to the current news stories on the VA.<br />
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://veterans.house.gov/VAHonestyProject</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Story about it: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-committee-puts-up-website-to-track-stonewalling-by-veterans-affairs-press-office/article/2546194</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">However, the House
Committee, itself, does send reporters through its own PAO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2013</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Presentation at
the National Academy of Sciences</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---A presentation at a
National Academy of Sciences workshop in December said these restrictions are
powerful, mean censorship that is new on an historic basis and radical. The
response could not have been better, with many people coming up to talk about it.
The 17-minute video is number 11 on the link: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI_XctmLK37Pq447NUHLxEOi1L-c-vx6K</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">--The NAS report on the
workshop with a summary of the talk is available. Search on “Foxhall.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18728"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18728</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A written copy is available. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">FDA Denies Petition</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---The FDA denied a
reporter’s petition on the issue, saying employees can become whistleblowers if
they want to say anything. A copy is available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Panel at the
National Press Club, August 2013</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">---A panel at the
National Press Club, August 12, 2013,covered by CSPAN-2, </span><a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314509-1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314509-1</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. features debate on the issue. Written
presentations from that panel: paosandreporters.blogspot.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">One survey indicates
most reporters working with federal agencies feel the interference is
censorship. Another found that 40 percent of PAOs admitted that they blocked
specific reporters because of “problems” with their prior stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.nagconline.org/documents/MediatedAccessReport11Mar2013.pdf</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://spj.org/pdf/reporters-survey-on-federal-PAOs.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://spj.org/pdf/reporters-survey-on-federal-PAOs.pdf</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Health and Human
Services Says No Communication without Surveillance<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Similar
to other agencies’ policies, Its media policy says:“…it is important that the
relevant agency public affairs office be notified of all media calls/contacts
that employees receive about their HHS work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Obama Administration
Endorses Restrictions, December 2010</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the first years of
the Obama Administration journalists asked that these practices be stopped. Instead,
the administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy adopted the
restrictions, perhaps for the first time in writing at such a high level. Its
scientific integrity memo said federal scientists may speak, “with appropriate
coordination with their immediate supervisor and their public affairs office.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/scientific-integrity-memo-12172010.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/scientific-integrity-memo-12172010.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">SPJ has now sponsored
seven surveys on this issue. The links are also in the abstracts below<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2016---</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Police Reporters</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://spj.org/pdf/sunshineweek/crime-reporters-survey-report.p</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2016—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Police PIOs</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1416</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2015—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Science Writers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://spj.org/pdf/foi/science-writers-survey-report.pdf</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2014—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Education Writers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.spj.org/pdf/sunshineweek/ewa-survey-report-2014.pdf</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2014—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Political and General Assignment
Reporters Across the Country</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.spj.org/pdf/sunshineweek/local-reporters-survey-report-2014.pdf</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2013—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Public Information Officers</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are researching
broken link.</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">2012—</span></b><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Survey of Reporters Covering Federal Entities</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">http://spj.org/pdf/reporters-survey-on-federal-PAOs.pdf</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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