White House Covers Own Story To The Exclusion Of Outside Media

The White House welcomed The University of CT Lady Huskies, (winners of the NCAA women’s basketball championship) to shoot hoops on the WH basketball court on April 27.  The White House Press Corps was not allowed to attend the event.

Jake Tapper reports:

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?

I don’t know. Let me think about that for a minute……

Um…yes…no…I have no idea!

Tapper wonders:

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)?

Let’s not think about that.

You can see the White House video at Political Punch.