Veteran reporter on federal health issues. Saw "censorship through media policy" begin to take over. Stunned news outlets can't report this murderous thing.
@nytimes Most federal agencies keep reporters out; ban staff from talking to journalists. Why are we talking only about the Pentagon? HHS has been thus constrained for years. Millions of lives at risk. How can this be ethical? @spj_tweets@sejorg@healthreporters@PublicHealth
Re: firing BLS official for "wrong" numbers: We don't say agency staff are banned from speaking to the press all the time.@LaurenKGurley@amacker. Can you explain? The gag rules are used for political manipulation.https://t.co/NNfOzKcnTz
Time to challenge gag rules: Journalists fight back against restrictions on public employees’ speech | Front Page: Editor and Publisher: Gag rules are everywhere. Journalists need to fight. @spj@PublicHealth@JohnsHopkinsSPH
I told HHS Asst Sec. of Public Affairs under Obama to kill the bans on staff talking to reporters without oversight.
I said we will have a variety pres. administrations in the future. @AshishKJha46@PublicHealth@spj_tweets@brianstetler@froomkin https://t.co/NNfOzKbQ41
The election debacle cannot be entirely blamed on the failures of our media system, but such long-standing systemic pathologies certainly played a key role. Likewise, rebuilding a vibrant information infrastructure must be a central piece of a broader re-democratization project.
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@RickABright On your important NYT piece. Over 3-4 decades federal agencies instituted rules banning staff from speaking to the press without oversight by PIOs, the authorities. It's an astounding mistake. Please read. https://t.co/NNfOzKbQ41 and https://t.co/BuGricBwdH
Did journalism take a massive turn when agencies, etc., began banning subordinates from speaking to reporters without controls on them? I have posted a decade or so worth of resources: https://t.co/TdK8Gq4tXi
@AJHAsocial@MacAejmc@AEJMC_MCS@JHistoryJournal@pressfreedom
CPJ is calling for stronger action to safeguard media freedom, freedom of expression, and access to information at the @UN#SummitOfTheFuture alongside 123 other signatories, welcoming the final revision of the #PactForTheFuture. Read more: https://t.co/Napn7WBwDo
Journalists and others have been documenting the unconstitutional gag rules and "Censorship by PIO" for over a decade. Why are big press outlets not opposing the restrictions? Here's a listing of articles, surveys, etc., for researchers and others. https://t.co/BuGricC43f
NYT got scoop about conflict of interest in FDA's medical devices division, but the whole press did not know for 15 years. Time to stop the gag rules banning people from talking to the media: https://t.co/woy27dLcIu
@SchmittMikaela Would like to talk about the Brittany Hailer case and the fact that there are likely many more gag rules in jails. https://t.co/618qTW6RBL
@DylanBaddour Understand: Information control by people in power, including these media policies, is one of the most debilitating, deadliest things in the world. Journalists can either openly fight it or be part of it. SPJ is fighting.https://t.co/BYfDRmhq6m