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1. Chuck Todd brought this up and was immediately panned according to the comments I read

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 06:44 AM

Nov 2013

at HuffPost..

White House reporters are riled up about restrictions placed on photos of President Obama, and they made no effort to hide it at Thursday's press briefing.

In a letter delivered to the White House on Thursday, journalists from a variety of media organizations protested limits that often prevent them from taking photos of Obama. The letter questioned why only White House-approved photos were the only ones of certain events allowed to be released.

NBC News chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd raised the issue at a briefing with White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest. Todd compared the restrictions to Vladimir Putin's control over the press in Russia, and later clarified on Twitter:

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Chuck Todd brought this up and was immediately panned according to the comments I read monmouth3 Nov 2013 #1

I'd like to slap that smirk chuckie boy has on his smug ass face madokie Nov 2013 #2

Who does he think he is--Luke Russert? pinboy3niner Nov 2013 #3

LOL madokie Nov 2013 #4

Did you hear he's getting his own Radio show?? a kennedy Nov 2013 #5

how did he compare bush's access limitations, ask the wrong question lose access to the president leftyohiolib Nov 2013 #10

Pete Souza calls their bullshit: JaneyVee Nov 2013 #6

It's really hard for me to work up much sympathy for the tv media. LuvNewcastle Nov 2013 #7

I think the "media journalists" (lord, that is funny) would like to be able to publish photos of the monmouth3 Nov 2013 #8

"harmed the public’s ability to monitor its own government." yea the media was all over monitoring leftyohiolib Nov 2013 #9