White House: Our Visual Propaganda a "Clear Win" for American Public

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The day after a minor uproar over the White Houses’ “managed media coverage” of the president hit the news cycle, the  WhiteHouse.gov “Photo of the Day” showed a working Obama signing a new piece of legislation surrounded by a semi-circle of news photgraphers.

No problem here.

With the nation’s largest news outlets accusing the White House of shutting down access to the president in unprecedented ways, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest called the managed release of photographs and video of the president, while banning journalists from specific events, nothing to worry about and a “clear win” for the American public.

“Unlike media photographers, official White House photographers are paid by taxpayers and report to the president. Their job is to make Obama look good. They are propagandists – in the purest sense of the word.”

“What we’ve done is we’ve taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job,” Earnest said in response to criticism. “To the American public, that’s a clear win.”

On Thursday, a coalition of news organizations had sent a letter of protest suggesting the Obama administration has become obsessed with controlling the narrative of the presidency by barring photojournalists access to Obama events and then subsequently releasing their own internally produced media of the same.

“Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties,” the letter said. “As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist’s camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government.”