Obama’s Image Control
Thursday, 12 December 2013 | by Pat's Picks

In an Op-Ed in the New York Times, the Director of Photography at the Associated Press argues the Obama administration is shutting out press photographers in favor of visual press releases. Santiago Lyon says the administration exercises Orwellian control over images of the President at work. It used to be that press photographers were invited in to private meetings, even if just for a few minutes, to get a true picture of what was happening. Now, the White House typically only releases a carefully selected image from its own photographer.
SOURCE: New York Times