Peoples Bill of Rights for White House Transparency

[grasswire]

Posted here after watching it fall off GD. Too important to pass by without some DUers seeing it.

Look at the content of this new blog -- a Peoples Bill of Rights for White House Transparency could solve the problem of media access!

http://webdems.blogspot.com

The Peoples' Bill of Rights for White House Transparency (working title for a document in progress).

1. The White House Correspondents Association shall be the sole credentialing authority for entry to press events and briefings.

2. The president shall appear before the White House press corps for a regularly scheduled monthly conference of no less than two hours.

3. Questions will be asked of the president in an order to be determined by the White House Correspondents Association.

4. No questions will be submitted in advance to White House employees. No suggestions for questions will be communicated from the White House to reporters.

5. No credentialed members of the press will be denied access to any press event except by the decision of the White House Correspondents Association.

6. Members of the White House press shall not accept faxes, phone calls, emails or other communications from the political office of the WH, from political campaigns, from the RNC, the DNC, or lobbyists or other politics-based agents, unless the reporter has initiated the contact. Such entities may provide copy of any background material to a WHCA library where it will be available for reporters.

5. There shall be no contact between political advisors to the White House and reporters for the purpose of punishing members of the press for their coverage. If the White House has a complaint, it shall be made in writing by the press secretary and submitted to the White House Correspondents Association, with any remedy or admonishment to be made by the Association to the correspondent in question.

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[ixion]

1. it would be great to see this implemented

I would actually tune in to watch. It would be very nice to see this country start acting like a democracy rather than a dictatorship.

[wysi]

2. 'Please...

... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.'

Seriously, a great idea. That's why it will never happen.

[methinks2]

3. drrooollll

That would just be too good!