Journalists Sound Alarm On White House Censorship

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Journalists Sound Alarm On White House Censorship

By wkchild on September 29, 2014 • ( 1 )
Source: The News Doctors, by Kate Scanlon

The “most transparent administration in history” is under fire once again. And this time the complaints are coming from journalists who cover the White House.


A dispute over “pool” reports has some White House correspondents crying foul and accusing President Obama’s team of altering and censoring details before the information is distributed more widely to their fellow journalists, the Washington Post reports.


The White House press corps has a long tradition of filing “pool” reports. The intent is largely practical: Rather than having every correspondent cover everything the president says or does, a smaller, rotating group is selected. That group then passes along the pertinent information from the day’s events.


But now there is a catch. According to the Post, the Obama White House is requesting alterations to those reports and sometimes refusing to send them unless reporters remove information. Before a pool report is shared, it must be filtered through the White House press office. The White House is responsible for forwarding the information to the entire pool of more than a thousand journalists.


“While the overwhelming majority of pool reports pass through the White House without delay or amendment,” the Post reports, “some have been flagged by the administration’s press staff, which has demanded changes as a condition of distributing them.”


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According to the reporters, some of the changes in dispute are “trivial issues and minor matters of fact,” but any White House intervention “represents a troubling trend.”
Read More Here: TheNewsDoctors.com

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Source Link: http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/...ampaign-event/


It takes the article a while to get to the meat of the matter, but then it says ...


Meg Kissinger, a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, posted on Facebook that she was told by a White House aide that she was not allowed to talk to people in the crowd.


“[A]ssigned to cover Michelle Obama’s speech today and was told by a Mary Burke aide and one for the White House that I could not speak to the people in the crowd. To say that I was creeped out is an understatement. This is what reporters do in America: we speak to people,” Kissinger posted. “At least that’s how I’ve been doing things — at all kinds of political events — since 1979.”


Kissinger wrote that reporters and photographers were cordoned off during the event.


“Reporters and photographers were cordoned off in a central area with chairs and tables. Several people in the crowd asked if they could have extra chairs reserved for the media — but reporters were initially forbidden from handing them over. Eventually, some of the Burke staff gave the extra chairs to attendees,” Kissinger reported.

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Creepy! :/