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October 06, 2005
They don't want us watching (or listening)
You may notice that there will be a little less coverage of House Small Business Committee hearings from The MicroEnterprise Journal in the coming months.
That's because I'm told that the House Small Business Committee is not going to be webcasting their hearings anymore for the foreseeable future.
They didn't offer any explanation for this. Taken in the best possible light, maybe they don't have anybody on staff with the technological know-how to deal with those audio webcasts anymore.
Or if you want to look at it in a more sinister fashion, maybe they've decided that they are going to be like the White House and dispense with transparency.
The bottom line is that, if I can't get down there for the hearing, I won't be able to offer much more than I can get from press releases and after-the-fact interviews.
From my point of view, this is typical of the change of mood in Washington over the past several years, during which it seems that there are too many people at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue who don't want too many people watching what they do too closely.
Posted by The Journal Blogger at October 6, 2005 03:33 PM
