President Obama Receives Transparency Award But No Press is There to See It
by Eve Zibel | March 30, 2011
President Obama received an award for his transparency in government on Monday, but you'd never know it because the press wasn't there to witness the meeting.
The award was originally supposed to be given to the president two weeks ago, but the White House cancelled the event that day. Not that there was going to be extensive coverage of that meeting either - it was only open to still photographers - but that's certainly more access than what happened on Monday.
According to the White House, the meeting was the first time open government advocates could remember sitting with a president and discussing government transparency.
Monday's event was also buried in a busy news day for the President where taped a Univision townhall and gave a major speech on the conflict in Libya. The rescheduled event was also not on his official schedule, but the original one was.
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