To coin a phrase; " I'll take my RIM news here, and seek my political opinions elsewhere!"  Bravo!

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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry Medina
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] Barack Obama promised transparency: The White House is as opaque, secretive, and hostile ... Bush's admin

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, John Phillips
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> There are really only a couple of issues here.
>
> 1. The undeniable importance in a democracy of transparency and the 
> critical role of openness in records generated by government. This is 
> appropriate subject for the list.
> 2. An assumption or allegation that a news source has a slanted opinion.
> Really? Whose slant? Which direction? Much of the media is blatantly 
> shamelessly biased......
> Discussing issues like this is very important and it is a primary 
> reason we have Records Managers in government and a Listserv like this to discuss it.
>
> Facts vs Opinion. If someone thinks a news source about a records 
> issue is more opinion than fact, they can provide a reference to a 
> countervailing opinion or more accurate facts. It is more important to 
> hear more than one perspective on a records issue on this list than it 
> is to appoint someone on the list as the sole arbiter of sanitized 
> perspective.
>

1) appropriate for the list shifts from time to time, but the baseline has always been IT IS TO BE RIM related first and foremost. "democracy and transparency" have there place, but they are not in the fore here.

2) the slant wasn't the issue... the slant was brought up because we didn't see anyone promoting the open discussion of these issues in the prior administration, but we do now.  And when issues were posted in the past, they were challenged as being off topic. AND DON'T ask me to cite examples...others recall it happening as well.

3) there are many records managers here that ARE NOT public employees, in fact, I'd venture a guess the MAJORITY ARE NOT... and of those that are, maybe half of them are Federal RMs.  and this is NOT the reason this Listserv exists, it never was.

4) fact vs. opinion?  in today's social media and weakly structured print media world, the old tests of three independent sources prior to publishing an article are all but gone... its easier to publish a 'mea culpa' than to do the hard work up front.


Personally, I'll take my RIM news here, and seek my political opinions elsewhere.

Larry
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*Lawrence J. Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972*

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