The New Pravda: White House News Network
ByVia Hot Air.
Wow, who woulda thunk it? Obama’s White House News Network, or as Jake Tapper calls is OTV.
Read the TV pool report: “Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS with the team shooting hoops. We protested loudly.”
Now we know why: Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who’s speaking.
Also, just like a network, they have their own little logo!
Cute!
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)?
It could just be that the White House doesn’t want press coverage of Obama sans teleprompter. But hey, they have a car company, an insurance company, and some banks. Why not a news network? Maybe Keith Olbermann can be their chief White House correspondent.
Wait a minute….doesn’t Olbermann already work for the federal government?
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They should save a few bucks and just call MSNBC the White House News Network. Why duplicate the effort with taxpayer dollars?