BEFORE the paper went to print?
How did the White House get a pre-print copy and do they do that regularly somehow?
OZbama he knows all, he sees all, he is all.
I suspect it had something to do with the reporter's friend who set up the tour.
The helicopter is humongous. I received clearance to see this big aircraft because a high school friend is the Communication System Operator (CSO), the person who receives and makes communications for the President while in flight. Since my dear friend set up the VIP tour,
That the reporter has now made an issue of it is not going to help out the friends career any.
Having worked in the business during my college years, the topic of a story occasionally asks for and/or is occasionally given the opportunity to review a story before it goes to print.
This was more common when the topic was something highly technical or scientific, for the obvious reasons that journalists could often get the facts mixed up. It was not so common when the topic was political. In fact, it would be seen as butt-kissing by most professionals at the time, even on a campus newspaper.
Given the close working relationship of the enemedia and the Democrat Party today, I suspect it is more or less of a routine thing and it was probably a "strong suggestion" to a little California newspaper which was not a member of the team.