White House Upsets Press Photogs Again, Locks Them Out of Dalai Lama Meeting
DL Cade · Feb 23, 2014
Image credits: Photographs by Pete Souza, Courtesy of the White House Flickr Stream
The Obama Administration is yet again making headlines thanks to its ‘closed-door’ policy when it comes to anyone other than official White House photographer Pete Souza getting time to photograph the President.
This time the controversy revolves around President Obama’s meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, a meeting with far-reaching political implications that everyone but Mr. Souza was yet again shut out of.
Initial reports that the White House was drawing independent press photographers’ ire by severely limiting access to the President broke all the way back in November, and yet the problem still hasn’t been solved. Not for lack of promises that positive change was on the way, but rather lack of any action to turn those words into reality.
“[The National Press Photographers Association] is deeply disappointed,” said NPPA general counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher, “that — despite promises by the White House to work with news organizations to improve access to newsworthy events involving the President — they barred independent photo coverage of today’s meeting with the Dalai Lama, only to issue their own photograph of the event a short time later.”
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