You will NOT be seeing any “pool photos” of him on this trip, guaranteed.
It’s not that he is on vacation - it’s that we are on vacation from him!
Why we won’t publish photos issued by the White House
By Sandra Duerr
December 5, 2013
As journalists, we strive to offer independent coverage — whether it’s breaking news, investigative stories, and individual or business profiles, for example. That includes photos.
Yet the White House has imposed what news organizations, including The Tribune, believe are unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama.
Instead of allowing journalists to cover some public events, it’s banning them — then releasing its own photos and videos, using social media to help spread the word.
“Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties,” according to the recent letter sent by 38 news organizations to the White House, the Associated Press reported. “As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist’s camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government.”