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January 07, 2008

Hillary Clinton calls for government bloggers

Even Bill Hobbs wouldn't argue with this one, right? In a bit about government openness and transparency, New York senator Hillary Clinton told a crowd of supporters in Manchester that "maybe we ought to have teams of government bloggers" to tell the American people about what is happening in each federal agency.

Letting the existing bureaucrats blog is one thing; hiring extra people just to do that is quite another.

That's my initial reaction, anyway.

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Government | By joe lance | 10:19 PM

Comments

Will agencies be completely open about their activities and blog about them? No. Will independent bloggers carry the torch and shed light on bureaucrat activity? They already do that the best they can.

Let's all say it together, d e s p e r a t e.

Posted by: davidm. at January 8, 2008 08:16 AM

As good as this sounds, any more government is a bad idea.

Posted by: gid at January 8, 2008 08:28 AM

Teams of government bloggers to NOT tell you the same stuff that the teams of government flacks are already NOT telling you.

Redundant and costly.

Posted by: Bill Hobbs at January 8, 2008 09:32 AM