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2013-11-23 Government

White House blocks access to Obama events, news groups say

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Why doesn't the MSM just ask for official White House photos of the events? It would save everyone time and the coverage is going to be the same regardless from the credentialed wing of the Democratic Party...

Credits

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-23 00:33|| 2013-11-23 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 There is a price to be paid for turning on us.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-23 00:49|| 2013-11-23 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't know why journalists don't use more of MY photos of Obama's events.

Heck in most cases I could even provide them with event photos before the event
even happens.

Posted by junkiron 2013-11-23 01:51|| 2013-11-23 01:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The next step is that the PoS (er...PotUS?) will claim rights to the photos and start selling them to "donors" for $100k a pop.

Posted by AlanC 2013-11-23 07:43|| 2013-11-23 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 "God" doesn't give anything, (He's God, or thinks he is)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-11-23 07:44|| 2013-11-23 07:44|| Front Page Top

#6 and start selling them to "donors" for $100k a pop.

And then setup a special fund (call it a communication enhancement fund - of taxpayer money of course) so that those on he's 'A' list can buy them.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-11-23 08:22|| 2013-11-23 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually I have noticed that since the Obamacare rollout fiasco, the exact same photos have been used over and over again for many different articles.

Also every single one of them appear to have been Photoshopped in some way or the other to enhance the main stream media's point of view.

The art of photography/photojournalism, today, is a lost art.

Most photographers today don't even try (or know how) to take quality images. They simply snap a bunch of snapshots, download the entire batch DIRECTLY from their cameras into a Photoshop application, and the Photoshop artists take over from there.

In a great many cases I doubt that the images we see posted on the MSM are any more real than the one I posted above.

Posted by junkiron 2013-11-23 09:21|| 2013-11-23 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 JI, yours take time, effort, creativity, imagination.

Too many photographers have taken on the mindset of being tripods. Well dressed and snotty tripods, but tripods nonetheless. I'm afraid that the same thing that is happening with people not being able to retain phone numbers is happening with the mass recording of anything, that people are sacrificing the be here now for hours of stale video footage.

Going through that digital video, picking the frame where el pres has the best smile and wink combo, adjusting bright/contrast, hue, saturation to make the most pleasing effective picture is not photography in the sense they pass it off as, the happened to catch the moment they sell it as. Its really advanced 21st century poster agit prop.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-23 10:15|| 2013-11-23 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Stay after it JI, you're on the verge. Work on equalizing the light.

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-23 13:18|| 2013-11-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 "You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

How is that different from ABC?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-11-23 13:35|| 2013-11-23 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 "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.

Evidently, a WH photographer was a bit overzealous carrying out Earnest's mandate...

Posted by Au Auric 2013-11-23 14:17|| 2013-11-23 14:17|| Front Page Top

#12 "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,"

The Golf Channel is new technology?

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-11-23 14:59|| 2013-11-23 14:59|| Front Page Top

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