red states rule
01-28-2009, 10:12 AM
Once again, the liberal media does not care how openly they show their bias
Time Magazine has a photographer on the payroll named that has been moonlighting as member of team Obama, taking pictures that sent out as official White House photos.
Time photog worked for transition
Time’s current issue is chock-full of Callie Shell photos, the news magazine benefiting from her incredible access to the first family . . .
. . . on inauguration day. But on Jan 5, Shell took pictures in a very different role than her journalistic one—allowing her work to be sent out as official White House transition press releases.
Shell’s dual roles have blurred the lines of journalism, leaving Time embarrassed and White House photographers stewing.
Shell defended her work, telling Politico that she works for Time and has never worked for the Obamas, whether during the administration, transition or campaign.
And Time insists that she’s a contract employee who was not on assignment Jan. 5, when she snapped photos of Sasha and Malia getting ready for school. A Time spokesperson said there is no formal policy over whether a contract photographer can take photos of their subjects, even if unpaid.
Indeed, Shell wasn’t paid for the transition photos, which she said was done as a last minute favor. A transition office intern, Shell said, then mistakenly distributed them with a credit line—the New York Times, for one, attributed the photos to “Callie Shell / Obama transition office.”
Within Time, the fact that Shell took photos sent out by the transition office, in between paid assignments for the magazine, has been frowned upon. And among photographers in the press corps, where access can mean the difference between the front page or nothing at all, the idea of doing any freelance work for the Obamas, albeit unpaid, hasn’t sat well, either.
“I had not seen that done before,” said one White House photographer. “It is extraordinary, uncommon, and exceptional.”
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0109/dual_roles_77b981c8-5235-4ab1-8368-a4382faa99e1.html
Time Magazine has a photographer on the payroll named that has been moonlighting as member of team Obama, taking pictures that sent out as official White House photos.
Time photog worked for transition
Time’s current issue is chock-full of Callie Shell photos, the news magazine benefiting from her incredible access to the first family . . .
. . . on inauguration day. But on Jan 5, Shell took pictures in a very different role than her journalistic one—allowing her work to be sent out as official White House transition press releases.
Shell’s dual roles have blurred the lines of journalism, leaving Time embarrassed and White House photographers stewing.
Shell defended her work, telling Politico that she works for Time and has never worked for the Obamas, whether during the administration, transition or campaign.
And Time insists that she’s a contract employee who was not on assignment Jan. 5, when she snapped photos of Sasha and Malia getting ready for school. A Time spokesperson said there is no formal policy over whether a contract photographer can take photos of their subjects, even if unpaid.
Indeed, Shell wasn’t paid for the transition photos, which she said was done as a last minute favor. A transition office intern, Shell said, then mistakenly distributed them with a credit line—the New York Times, for one, attributed the photos to “Callie Shell / Obama transition office.”
Within Time, the fact that Shell took photos sent out by the transition office, in between paid assignments for the magazine, has been frowned upon. And among photographers in the press corps, where access can mean the difference between the front page or nothing at all, the idea of doing any freelance work for the Obamas, albeit unpaid, hasn’t sat well, either.
“I had not seen that done before,” said one White House photographer. “It is extraordinary, uncommon, and exceptional.”
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0109/dual_roles_77b981c8-5235-4ab1-8368-a4382faa99e1.html