Our correspondents feel like Jews in 1933: Russia pushes back on criticism of state photographer
Source: Washington Post
he presence of a Russian photographer working for a state-owned news agency during President Trump's meeting with Russian diplomats in the Oval Office on Wednesday sparked criticism from media advocates, as well as concerns over the risk of a security breach.
White House officials seemed caught off guard by the controversy, initially saying they had not anticipated that the state news agency Tass would post photographs from the meeting. “They tricked us,” one unnamed official was quoted as saying by CNN.
In response, Russian officials have fired back fiercely — by taking aim at the U.S. media.
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“Here he is — the spy!” Zakharova said sarcastically after being approached by a Post reporter, referring to the Tass photographer who was standing nearby. “Your newspaper is making our correspondents feel like Jews in 1933.”
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