Comments on: Quote to remember http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/quote-to-remember-74/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave Walker http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/quote-to-remember-74/comment-page-1/#comment-753 Dave Walker Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:27:58 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2007/09/quote-to-remember-74/#comment-753 Public sector - particularly central Government - is a particular classic case of this. Recall the "Westminster irregular verb" - "I inform, you leak, he / she / it is being prosecuted for breach of the Official Secrets Act" :-). Where the press can't get hold of information associated with questionable Government behaviour, which is not covered under the Freedom of Information Act, so the feedback loop which (in an ideal world - sigh) causes Government duplicity to result in an electoral thumping at the earliest possible opportunity, is incomplete. It's worth a thought that the FOIA also acts to very carefully limit the scope for use of DRM within Government, but that's OT for this comment. Public sector – particularly central Government – is a particular classic case of this. Recall the “Westminster irregular verb” – “I inform, you leak, he / she / it is being prosecuted for breach of the Official Secrets Act” :-) .

Where the press can’t get hold of information associated with questionable Government behaviour, which is not covered under the Freedom of Information Act, so the feedback loop which (in an ideal world – sigh) causes Government duplicity to result in an electoral thumping at the earliest possible opportunity, is incomplete.

It’s worth a thought that the FOIA also acts to very carefully limit the scope for use of DRM within Government, but that’s OT for this comment.

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