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  • Obama Administration Punishes Reporter For Using Multimedia

    04/28/2011 8:03:38 PM PDT · by DryFly · 13 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 28, 2011 | Phil Bronstein
    The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights. White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country from the approved pool of journalists covering presidential visits to the Bay Area for using now-standard multimedia tools to gather the news. The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci - who, like many contemporary reporters, has a phone with video capabilities on her at all times - pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel. Read more:...
  • Chronicle will not be pool reporter for Michelle Obama visit : Politics Blog

    06/13/2011 11:28:37 PM PDT · by thecodont · 9 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle / sfgate.com ^ | June 13 2011 at 04:10 PM | Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
    Remember a couple of weeks ago when The White House got ticked off at Comrade Marinucci for posting video of activists protesting President Obama inside a San Francisco fundraiser? To Team Obama she was violating an unwritten rule on a print reporters posting video and they threatened to exclude The Chronicle from being the pool reporter in the future. To other sentient beings, Comrade Marinucci was -- and pardon the technical term here -- "reporting the news." News that MANY other non-journalists who were there at the fundraiser were recording with various camera phones. And she was perfectly within her...