<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224451276668624307.post-4112440002653893738</id><published>2009-07-02T04:09:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-07-02T04:22:50.140-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Erie Times-News and Open Records filings</title><content type='html'>In an editorial published today, the Erie Times-News celebrated the new transparency in the commonwealth's operations fostered by the recently-enacted open records law which went into effect last January. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the editorial, some 500 requests for public records have been filed with the state's Open Records office during the six months since it's been in business. Guess how many requests have been filed by the Times-News's inquiring "investigative journalists."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zip. Zero. Nada. None.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5224451276668624307-4112440002653893738?l=erienewsmediawatchdog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://erienewsmediawatchdog.blogspot.com/feeds/4112440002653893738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5224451276668624307&amp;postID=4112440002653893738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5224451276668624307/posts/default/4112440002653893738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5224451276668624307/posts/default/4112440002653893738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://erienewsmediawatchdog.blogspot.com/2009/07/erie-times-news-and-open-records.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;The Erie Times-News and Open Records filings&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Joe LaRocca</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07166056191245998168</uri><email>jlar5552@velocity.net</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11964399039397736600'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>