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DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
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n. — Politics
the practice of allowing members of the media to view copies of a government budget in a secured room to prevent the release of details before its official presentation.
Type: 5. Frequency — Federal budget lock-ups occur in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (see Chart 1). Canada and Australia also have provincial/state budget lock-ups, but overall, lock-ups are more frequent in Canada than in Australia.
See also COD-2, s.v. "lock-up" (2), which is marked "Cdn".
See also COD-2, s.v. "lock-up" (2), which is marked "Cdn".
Quotations
1977
Each year the lock-up crowd seems to grow, [...] because it has become a grand social event for the media, in some ways better than the annual press gallery dinner.
1982
A major televised announcement by a Government's first minister, preceeded by leaks and a day-long lock-up and followed with a media blitz.
1984
As is customary, reporters were given advance copies of the budget in a special "media lockup" room several hours before the document was introduced in the Legislature by Treasurer Larry Grossman.
1993
They resented the Liberals holding a budget-style lock-up and confining them for two hours before the leader's official news conference.
1996
Piling up the Paperwork *Exactly 427 journalists, technicians and pundits attended the budget lockup in February 1995. (In the lockup, journalists receive an advanced peek at the budget, provided they do not release any details until it has been delivered in the House by the finance minister.)
1999
Rather than rehashing the heavily leaked budget, let me take you behind the scenes in the notorious media lockup where hundreds of journalists, many numerically dysfunctional like me, read, understand and attempt to explain the facts and figures in confident, professional style.
2003
The "lock-up" is where reporters are forced into a small room with no access to the outside world, so that the sensitive details of the budget can't be "leaked"
References
- COD-2
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