Monday, October 27, 2014
White House pool reporters test own news distribution system - Washington Post
With "help" from the White House, we can only wonder what really goes on...
In a recent Washington Post article, Paul Farhi writes about this issue:
"Pool reports — those summaries of the president’s public appearances that go to the news media at large and are used in countless news stories — are filed by a rotating group of journalists whose work is intended to be free of content changes by the White House. The pool journalists, however, must submit their reports to the White House press office, which distributes them via e-mail to hundreds of news organizations and others. The White House maintains the list of recipients.
Reporters have complained that the Obama White House exploits its role as distributor to demand changes in pool reports and that the press office has delayed or refused to distribute some reports until they are amended to officials’ satisfaction."
