The administration only responds to trivial petitions or petitions that already side with their policy. Typical. Obama claims that his is the "Most transparent administration ever"
You could actually argue that handling of these petitions is very transparent: petition text goes in, petition text comes out, and there's a null transform in the middle.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283335-obam...
Journalists loudly disagree:
http://gazette.com/journalists-criticize-white-house-for-sec...