"If you take this practice to its logical conclusion, why have news conferences?" Lyon wrote. "Why give reporters any access to the White House? ...Repressive governments do this all the time."Lyon called the White House photo policies "manifestly undemocratic," saying the administration has "systematically tried to bypass the media by releasing a sanitized visual record of his activities through official photographs and videos, at the expense of independent journalistic access."
Lyon says the White House has closed media out of activities to which previous administrations routinely granted access, like the president at work in the Oval Office or on his first day of work.
"By no stretch of the imagination are these images journalism," he wrote. "Rather, they propagate an idealized portrayal of events on Pennsylvania Avenue."
Read Lyon's full op-ed at nytimes.com.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
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Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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