Coverage Story.
Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry offers an interesting defense of controversial video news releases issued by federal agencies in a USA Today piece today. Such releases are necessary, he says, because news organizations don't spend enough time reporting on how Americans' tax dollars are spent. Reporters, McCurry says, should "try covering the things that the government really does and report on things that really work instead of assuming that everything is waste, fraud and abuse." Hey, Mike: Some of us do.
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