NPR, WaPo, AP & other MSM OPPOSE in court Michael Mann’s effort to keep CLIMATEGATE-related e-mails secret – Strange bedfellows: ‘Climate change deniers, newspapers partner in a FOIA fight’
'Organized by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 17 news organizations, including National Public Radio, Dow Jones, and The Washington Post, submitted an amicus brief in November, supporting the group’s rights to Mann’s emails.
“By defining an exemption to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (‘VFOIA’) as broadly as the lower court has done, this Court Would be, in effect, removing almost all public documents from the ambit of the records law,” reads the brief. By exempting Mann’s emails from public release, the group argues, the court is setting what journalists see as a dangerous precedent—making it much more difficult to gain access to public records.'
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/michael_mann_versus_the_press.php?page=1
