Is Obama's Photo Policy Propaganda? (The Rubin Report) [View all]

USA Today is now prohibiting the use of official White House photos except in "extraordinary circumstances." Along with USA today, 38 news outlets sent a letter to the White House protesting their shutting out of independent photojournalists out in favor of taxpayer-funded official White House photographers.

Look at a few photographs from independent photojournalists side-by-side with photographs from White House photographer Pete Souza in the video, and see the difference between the access photojournalists are getting compared to official white house photographers.

White House photographers have had exclusive access for decades, but before social media their photos were not distributed widely. Do you think news outlets distributing the controlled photographs from the White House could be looked at as propaganda?