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So Transparent, You Can't See It - Some WH Press Briefing Transcripts Go Dark - 2/11/09
— Wednesday, February 11, 2009 —
 In another demonstration of their acclaimed tech savviness, President Obama's White House Press Office today has removed, lost, deleted, who-knows-what recent press briefing transcripts since 2/4/09 with no comment as to their eventual return.
Press briefing transcripts for February 4th, 5th and 6th 2009 are no longer listed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/pressbriefings/ and their old links will gift you an Official White House 404 message.
Monday's Air Force One Press Gaggle is missing from the list but the link still currently works. Monday's first Presidential Press Conference, not hosted under the Press Briefings section, still remains available on the site.
Besides the continuing delayed and slow posting time of press briefing transcripts, the team running the whitehouse.gov site has had a confusing and conflicting information architecture since the site's relaunch. URL references have flipped back and forth between different standards and styles for postings, so we just assume this is another glitch in their operation.
UPDATE: The transcript for today's 2/11/09 briefing (using the more dominate URL style) has now appeared on whitehouse.gov but not the missing transcripts.
UPDATE #2: The transcripts for the February 4, 5 and 6 briefings were finally reposted sometime on February 12th. Yay. However, the February 9th Air Force One Press Gaggle is still MIA on the whitehouse.gov Press Briefings page although still available at this link. What a mess.
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Posted by White House Press Corps @ 7:07:00 PM
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3 Comments:
Soon you'll be able to view any you wish for a nominal fee.
Of course, some will not be available. Transparency my butt!
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