By Jon Caldera, Commentary | Complete Colorado
What’s worse: people in political power shielding their activity from public oversight or the media celebrating them for doing so?
Fortunately, in Colorado we don’t have to choose. We get both!
The Colorado Press Association (CPA) has bestowed its “Defender of Free Press” award to the very same legislators who earlier this year passed a law to keep the press, and citizens, out of their meetings. Yes, these grand defenders of the Fourth Estate voted to exempt themselves from the Colorado Open Meetings Law so we can’t see what they’re doing — definitely award-worthy.
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