AP editor urges boycott
of staged Obama photos
The Associated Press's executive editor is urging a nationwide press boycott of staged photos of President Obama handed out by the White House, the Daily Caller reports.
Newspaper editors at a national conference heard the AP editor, Kathleen Carroll, call for them to cease printing the White House's preferred photos, according to conference participants interviewed by the Caller.
The issue is that the White House has been giving short shrift to press photographers and distributing carefully crafted handouts, conference participants were told by
AP's director of photography, Santiago Lyon.
“This works because newspapers use these handout photos,” she said at the
AP Media Editors national conference in Indianapolis on Wednesday. The quotation was attributed to Jack Lail,
digital editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Obama has come under strong criticism from press rights groups and many journalists on grounds that his policies are too controlling and threaten the free working of democracy.
Daily Caller's report
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/ap-editors-obama-relies-on-staged-propaganda-photos/
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