SPJ Asks Biden to End Rules Against Agency Staff Speaking to News Media
The Society of Professional Journalists asked President-elect Joe Biden to end restrictions “exacerbated” during President Donald Trump’s administration that bar federal offices from speaking to the news media without oversight by public information officers or other authorities. The rules “amount…
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to extreme censorship and damage everyone’s understanding of government,” said SPJ President Matthew Hall in a Tuesday letter to Biden. “It is deep negligence to expect that agencies that control the public scrutiny of themselves will not develop critical weaknesses or that they will not be subjected to political interference.” Biden’s transition team didn’t comment.