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Calling BULL*@! on this story. Pity the Tampa Bay Times: even when a story is about your own back yard, you fail to resist the need to make it D/R political clickbait! Wouldn't the legislature and governor also be harming all the "Republican" newspapers?

Instead of rallying all the people behind the notion of maintaining open government, cry like little babies about losing money. Yes, the money is important. But while you focus on the sore spot (just as government wants you to), you miss the story and squander an opportunity to gather all the people to the side of "the fourth estate".

Tell the story to the people: why this is bad for them (not why this is bad for you!). Instead you tell them it is an argument about publishing in print or on a website...the people do not care about that argument, which means you have lost the argument.

The real story here is that in every state, government is attempting to shut down ALL transparency to the press. If "the press", as described in the First Amendment, does not wake up and push back, all FOIA laws will be diluted this year. That is the story you should be telling all people.