Today marks the start of the annual Sunshine Week.
It’s about openness in government, not just about press relations, though it’s often the institutionalized journalist who’s on the front lines of records requests and preventing illegal closed-door meetings of public bodies.
Sunshine Week is an effort of the News Leaders Association and has a simple theme: Open government is good government.
That’s an important recognition especially when members of the press are under constant attack, not only from those who the nation’s reporters are committed to questioning and taking to task, but from those they serve in the general public.