NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN BRIEF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303460002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 20, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE ~rpTg, PIIILADE'LPxIA INQUIRER
ON PAGE 20 PIOV-nMBER 1980
National and International News
in Br
jei
Journalist groups want the media
first in line for information...
Testifying before a Senate Govern-
mental Affairs subcommittee, Jack C.
Landau, representing the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press
and the Society of Professional Jour-
nalists, said the passage of the Flee-
dom of Information Act in 1967 "has
not produced the type of prompt and
effective disclosure of government
information for the press and the
general public that was envisioned."
The press - and by extention, the
public.- should come -first, before
businesses and law firms and should
be charged at a lower rate for proc-
essing of requests,, he said. Due to
time and money problems, he said,
less than 5 percent of all information
requests.are made by journalists,
scholars and writers seeking infor-
mation to disseminate to the public.
He noted that agencies like the CIA
.and FBI are unable to respond to
requests for information within the
30 days spelled out by the act.
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