Class, Here Are Your Handouts. Now Scoot...
On the NPR show “On the Media,” host Bob Garfield discussed the growing White House habit of giving reporters press releases and photos in order to “feed the media beast and erode the impulse to do actual reporting.”
AP Photographer Susan Walsh became sick of the practice and discovered that the Bush administration has distributed more than 500 photo handouts, many of which find their way into newspapers without a notice to readers explaining that they originate from White House Productions, Inc.
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