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Redact of the Killer Tomatoes
Kevin
Drum links to an amusing story
in North Carolina's News & Observer about
government censorship of "sensitive" materials. The state's
Department of Labor recently released to the paper a sheaf of
documents a reporter had requested, but many were so thoroughly
redacted as to be nigh unintelligble. Except one of the heavily
redacted documents was an article that the News &
Observer itself had published in 2003—and the author was the
same reporter who'd submitted the document request. Among the
redacted words: Mexicans, illegally, several
workers, landlord, and tomato pickers. The
labor department says it "will probably review its policies on what
information is private."
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|3.23.06 @ 2:44PM|#
Tomorrow, all adverbs will be redacted. The next day, every word beginning with a vowel.
|3.23.06 @ 3:00PM|#
What, are we communist Cuba now? Why is our government censoring things that aren't national security issues, i.e. things normally graded as Classified, Top Secret etc.?
|3.23.06 @ 3:09PM|#
Kinda like a government version of Mad-Libs.
|3.23.06 @ 3:30PM|#
We had a "We're from the government and we're here to help" moment at my office recently, with the Labor Dept. It was about as productive as their redaction efforts.
|3.23.06 @ 3:55PM|#
They're jamming. Redacting inocuous stuff to make it harder to figure out what's worth scrutinizing....
Jim Anderson|3.23.06 @ 4:30PM|#
Makes me think of "The Censors" by Luisa Valentina...
|3.23.06 @ 4:34PM|#
Hey, waitaminute! I recognize this! They cribbed this plot from _Catch 22_!
|3.23.06 @ 4:47PM|#
"Sensitive", eh? I've got to worry when state governments start sounding like the Chinese government...
|3.23.06 @ 4:58PM|#
I appreciate the picture along with this post. It saves me from having to read the related material. Talk about going the extra mile! Thanks H&R!
|3.24.06 @ 10:32AM|#
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