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Washington Star News breaks embargo on budget [Notice to Press]
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Washington Star News breaks embargo on budget [Notice to Press]
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Digitized from Box 7 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Fe
ary 3, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The Washington Star News has broken the embargo on the budget. As a
consequence, the Economic Report of the President to Congress will not
be given to the Washington Star News until noon tomorrow, the release
time, and the Washington Star News will not be allowed to attend
tomorrow morning's briefing on the Economic Report of the President.
In addition, Fred Barnes of the Washington Star News, who was
scheduled to ask a question at the President's news conference in Atlanta
tomorrow will not be allowed to ask his question.
News organizations which break a release time are unfair to all their
colleagues who live up to the embargo. If news organizations start
ignoring embargoes, we will have an-impossible situation in which there
will be a race to get into print or on the air first and everyone will
lose. In addition, breaking an embargo on a message to Congress puts the
President in the position of showing discourtesy to members of the
House and Senate because members read about the President's message or
hear it broadcast before they receive the official copy.