|
|
Article: Let the sunshine in.(Editorials)(Good government is open government)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2005
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 The Register Guard. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: The Register-Guard
According to Paul McMasters, ombudsman for the First Amendment Center in Arlington, Va., the U.S. government created 3.6 million secret documents in 1996. The current annual rate is 14 million - a fourfold increase in secrecy in less than a decade. Newspapers, other media and journalistic organizations are drawing attention to the trend toward government secrecy today - Sunshine Sunday - and throughout the week to come.
Open government shouldn't matter only to people in the news business. Just as the First Amendment belongs to all Americans, open government concerns all citizens. When secrecy becomes the default setting for ...