Do You Want Your OTV?

[snowdays]

umm.. I am a bit uneasy about this.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/do-you-want-you.html

Do You Want Your OTV?

May 20, 2009 5:56 PM

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Reads the print pool report from that day: "After shaking hands with the team's parents and members of Congress who showed up, the president walked the team over to his basketball court and shot hoops. The pool was held back from the stroll down the drive and around the corner, and couldn't see the court. Poolers could hear periodic cheering coming from the other side of the bushes."

Read the TV pool report: "Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS with the team shooting hoops. We protested loudly."

Now we know why: Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who's speaking.
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It's perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events -- but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game).

Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn't flattering enough?

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they're told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?


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May 20, 2009

[geckosfeet]

1. Good. Glad they excluded the 'liberal' msm. They would only have

glorified the president and the occasion.

Darned liberal media.