Selective Reporting: RealID Edition

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The Real ID act just got another extension. Its third. The date was moved from May 11, 2011 to January 15, 2013 "so that cash-strapped states will have more time to add security features to driver's licenses and ensure that license holders are who they say they are."

According to CNN, at least.

They've reported basically the same reasons for the other delays. Both of them.

They even got the word directly from the Department of Homeland Security.
However, states have not been able to comply with Real ID because of a number of factors, including the economic downturn and uncertainty that sprang up when Congress considered modifying the Real ID requirements, the department said.

Maybe it's just me, but if half the states (25) had passed resolutions and binding laws refusing compliance with the Real ID Act, I'd think that might be worth reporting. It might even be worth including in that bit about how the states are too broke to comply, up toward the front of the story.

Well, maybe they buried it somewhere down in the verbiage nobody ever reads... in the fourth or fifth paragraph, or even later.

Nope, not one word about all that law-makin' in the whole CNN story.

But they did explain why there was no public discussion on the extension of the deadline... a deadline that's been known for a couple of years.
The administration announced the delay in a final rule published in the Federal Register. In doing so, it bypassed a customary public comment period, which it said would be impractical given the late date.