March 27, 2008

Newspapers Ignore Open Records Case

After nine months of its open-records requests being ignored by the Bredesen administration, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research's lawsuit to force the administration to release the records is, ironically, now being ignored by most of the state's news media.

The Associated Press in Tennessee released this story Monday eventing on the lawsuit, which accuses administration officials with the Department of Finance & Administration for ignoring two open-records requests for more than nine months. The number of newspapers that picked up the story appears to be few.

I'm sure the fact that the organization that filed the suit is considered politically conservative has nothing to do with newspaper editors ignoring the story about the administration ignoring open-records requests for nine months.