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Media Protest U.S. Government Economic Data Restrictions
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News media advocates told Congress a U.S. Labor Department plan to require journalists to use government equipment for reporting jobless figures and other economic data would violate press freedom.
“The media takes government interference with its work product very seriously,” Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing today in Washington.