From today's New York Times article on news orgs waging battles to gain access to government information [emphasis added]:

But The A.P. has been vastly more assertive in appealing denied Freedom of Information Act, or F.O.I.A., requests from the federal government under the Obama administration, which came to power promising to operate a more open government and alter what some media lawyers complained was a trend toward more government secrecy in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

“After 9/11, I sensed there was an element of defeatism around government secrecy,” said Mr. Tomlin, adding that news organizations were often not forceful in filing appeals of denied information requests.

On appeals, The A.P., which last year hired a new in-house lawyer, Karen Kaiser, will send documents, sometimes just a letter, that often resemble full legal briefs to agencies being tight with information. “We give them a taste of what a lawsuit looks like,” Mr. Tomlin said.

Last year, according to Ms. Kaiser, The A.P. appealed over 40 denied F.O.I.A. requests, and 28 have been resolved, 24 of them successfully. "The decision was made to be more aggressive because we believed it was the only way to force agencies to comply with the law," she said.

So, for the record, during the Bush years, news outlets, including the AP presumably, “were not forceful in filing appeals of denied information requests.” But under Obama, the AP has suddenly become “vastly more assertive” in appealing the exact same type of denials.

Curse that liberal media!