On 23 December 2011 09:48, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16302375 > > This is the first of what I would expect to be a massive number of > stories in the next year which will use the silly nature of some FOIs > to build consensus for the weakening of the Act.
That's the stuff you want to look out for. BBC provides nowhere to reply (so you can't ask how much money the LGA's spending on the PR bunny that planted that highly-political story at your expense and whether it's more money or less than the FOI reqs they are misrepresenting, for example), but other outlets do. Equally though, every news desk contact book in the land should have one of us and a cell phone number under 'FOI' so there's a better chance of nipping crap like that in the bud. *Some* dimwit will be waving that Santa one around in the Commons before January's out. jh _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
