So this is what the American's call open justice?http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/06/04
"With Bradley Manning's trial entering its second day and the government refusing to release transcripts and denying 280 of 350 media requests for access, a coalition of over 20 media organizations, from Fox and Bloomberg to the Guardian and New Yorker, has written to the U.S. military court seeking two more press passes for stenographers - crowd-funded with $58,000 in donations through Freedom of the Press Foundation - to provide transcripts. Word has it the judge has ruled to allow a court stenographer, but press passes are still needed. Borrowed will do for now; they are transferable. For later, the larger issue: Why the struggle to get public and press access to court proceedings deemed "a hallmark of democracy in the United States."
"With Bradley Manning's trial entering its second day and the government refusing to release transcripts and denying 280 of 350 media requests for access, a coalition of over 20 media organizations, from Fox and Bloomberg to the Guardian and New Yorker, has written to the U.S. military court seeking two more press passes for stenographers - crowd-funded with $58,000 in donations through Freedom of the Press Foundation - to provide transcripts. Word has it the judge has ruled to allow a court stenographer, but press passes are still needed. Borrowed will do for now; they are transferable. For later, the larger issue: Why the struggle to get public and press access to court proceedings deemed "a hallmark of democracy in the United States."
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