Via PolicyMic: 8 Photos You Didn’t See From Obama’s Trip to South Africa.
More Photos from the Trip to SA
22
Comments
Categories
Tags
22 responses to “More Photos from the Trip to SA”
-
Of course, given that all of these photos come from Pete Souza, a government employee who has access to the President that press photographers do not, means that they are quite obviously going to be far more, shall we say, kind to the person in office than what press photographers might be able to catch if and when they are given access.
As I noted last month, though, there is an ongoing dispute between the White House and the press photographers who cover the White House over the very issue of access.
-
a government employee who has access to the President that press photographers do not, means that they are quite obviously going to be far more, shall we say, kind to the person in office than what press photographers might be able to catch if and when they are given access.
So it appears that limiting access is justified then…if Press Photographers are going to be unkind…or biased would be another word…as you say.
-
@Doug Mataconis: I really had not comment on the photos, just found them interesting (although I will say that the commentary is a bit simplistic).
However, as per my post on the selfie, no photo tells the whole story (and there is always a lot of room for interpretation).
-
Yea because how dare the media show our leaders in anything other than the most sympathetic, sycophantic manner possible.
Souza is, in the end, an Administration propagandist who takes photos that make the President look good. He’s not a substitute for the press.
-
There is nothing that says the President has to do more than send written memos to serve his station.
“Access” is bs.
-
-
@Doug Mataconis:
Now we’re getting to what ails you. Your ODS is showing. -
We have a free press and an open society. Let’s say that the President communicates just as much as he wants to. What’s the problem?
If the President were to wall up in an abandoned military base he’d have a pretty hard time accomplishing anything, right?
-
@Doug Mataconis:
But the Press has been conspicuous in their absence for years.
If and when a healthy press re-appears I think they definitely should be allowed access.
Until then there’s no reason.
Keep in mind that I am a former Broadcast Photographer with 3 Emmys to my credit. -
@Doug Mataconis:
Here’s a perfect example of the coverage you are pining for…
http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/obamas-flirt-with-danish-prime-minister-is-a-disgrace/ -
-
Here’s a perfect example of the coverage you are pining for…
http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/obamas-flirt-with-danish-prime-minister-is-a-disgrace/Well at least that wasn’t a “Neville Chamberlain” moment, right?
Also, I have to say, I’ve always thought that Obama and Scarlett Johansson were a great couple.
http://cdn.theweek.co.uk/sites/theweek/files/styles/theweek_article_main_image/public/images/080626people_obama–121448037934208900.JPG?itok=vKiqs0NY -
@C. Clavin: Wow, and that was written by a woman. A woman who refers to the Danish Prime Minister as a Danish Pastry, Danish Hellcat and Danish Cupcake. Yeah, let’s let fine journalists like this have more access to the President. What could go wrong?
-
@anjin-san:
That’s funny…I can see Doug and Jenos sitting on the couch in Jenoses mothers basement munching on Cheetos and chocolate milk. Of course they are each wearing oneseys. -
@Doug Mataconis:
I still see a lot of MSM shots of Obama. It doesn’t seem like the photographers working for media outlets (some of them journalists) are being at all frozen out. What is happening is that more photos by the White House photographer are getting out and the media photographers are jealous of that access (at a level no president would give any but his own people). Absent the release of his own photos, the media photographers have no gripe. So, in essence, it boils down to how dare he release his own photos, that’s our job.
Latest Posts
-
Dumbest Timeline: Stay Classy, Mr. President, Edition
-
More Tales of the Economics President
-
Who Could Have Predicted It?
-
In Front of Our Noses: “I’m going to give…”
-
Democrats Optimistic One Month Before Midterms
-
Alito Considering Retirement
-
Law Banning Noncitizen Voting Ruled Unconstitutional
-
Checking on the Economics President’s Economy