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Reporters: Federal Officials, Data Off Limits

The Washington Post | by TVNewsCheck

Tensions between reporters and public information officers — “hacks and flacks” in the vernacular — aren’t new. Reporters have always wanted more information than government officials have been willing or able to give. But journalists say the lid has grown tighter under the Obama administration, whose chief executive promised in 2009 to bring “an unprecedented level of openness” to the federal government.