Christie's Promise of Transparency Unfulfilled

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 27, 2014

Today, New York Public Radio president Laura Walker writes on the op-ed page of The New York Times on the Christie administration's fight to prevent the release of public records. Jim Schachter, vice president for news at WNYC, talks about the station's lawsuit to gain access under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act and the instances where the governor has come up short in fulfilling his promise of greater transparency in his inaugural address.

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