Breaking News: Obama’s Own TV Station Goes Easy On Obama

Gerrit Lansing / May 23, 2009

There’s strange and then there’s this. ABC’s Jake Tapper writes:

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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