The U.S. Department of State is revising its rules for employee public speaking to impose new reviews of Internet communications, and is reportedly considering a 2-day review period for tweets, 5-day review period for blog posts, 10-days for online articles and 30 days for books and other lengthier publications, the blog Diplopundit reported Tuesday.
The report comes in the wake of a controversial move by the New York Times to begin having the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren work another editor specifically on all of Rudoren’s social media posts, so as to avoid “exposing The Times to a reporter’s unfiltered and unedited thoughts,” a move the paper took after Rudoren was criticized by other publications’ reporters for supposedly displaying bias in her tweets.
(H/T: The Washington Post)
