David Weigel

David Weigel @daveweigel

The thing to remember here is that lots of people find the mainstream media obnoxious and tune it out - there's not much political downsides to saving taxpayers some $ that was going to the local newspaper they probably don't read anymore. https://t.co/78ZwxklPRL — PolitiTweet.org

David Weigel @daveweigel

@gorgo_1982 @Jason_Garcia Right, that hurts newspaper bottom lines but you can see the rationale. Hand-holding a friendly outlet and telling it want to FOIA to embarrass a political opponent... less of a compelling public interest there — PolitiTweet.org