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November 25, 2013
Seattle Tacoma Paper Refuses To Run Obama's White House Propaganda
Baby steps. Now that Obama's popularity, credibility, and, er, usefulness is at an all-time low, the papers can pretend to have some journalistic ethics again.
From now on, we won’t publish White House handout photos of events that should have been open to news photographers, even if that means going without a photo. As the protest letter said, closing the door to the press gets in the way of “the public’s ability to independently monitor and see what its government is doing.
It was the case last year and the year before that the Obama White House ran a tightfisted propaganda machine. The papers are only squealing now because it's easy to.
*Headline corrected. Bah. Seattle, Tacoma. All ya'll look alike.
Update: A bigger deal: USA Today is also declining to run White House propaganda photos.
posted by Gabriel Malor at
11:42 AM
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