Governor Spitzer's opening salvo of executive orders has been receiving a fair amount of (well-deserved) attention. They're good, solid anti-corruption measures and it's simply outrageous that they weren't issued a generation ago.

The order on "Promotion of Public Access to Government Decision Making" is particularly neat, as it requires state agencies and public authorities to "broadcast" their meetings on the internet (except those granted special exemption).

Brian Lehrer, however, made an interesting point on this in his radio show this morning (just under halfway into the "Tuesday Morning Politics" segment): the order only mentions "broadcasting" the meetings, not archiving the broadcasts. Streaming without archiving wouldn't do much to improve public access. Will archiving also be a requirement, or will state agencies allow their streamed proceedings to be lost in the ether?