News Agencies Complain of Limited Access at Obama Events
White House pushes its own carefully chosen photographs
The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
The organizations accuse the White House of banning photojournalists from covering Obama at some events, and then later releasing its own photos and videos of the same events.
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Surprised that a man with his unflattering profile, yet huge ego would do this? Bet he spends hours going through the shots before he approves of a handful of the best ones. Anything that might highlight his Max Schreck ears gets the axe.
And because 'transparency' is contagious, that witch Clinton it stonewalling the media also.
But they mean well, so the media still fawns over them.