How would you feel discovering that your local or state government had entered into an agreement with, say, McDonald’s to give the company advance warnings of any media queries about, say again, food hygiene or any other health concerns about an outlet in a particular location?  If you were a journalist, you might not be terribly McHappy, right? 

It’s just been revealed that the US State of Virginia, in efforts to lure Amazon, the world’s richest company, to that state to establish Amazon’s second service centre, agreed to provide all and any FOI requests from media or members of the public, thereby giving Amazon advance warning...