Photographing Presidential Broadcasts

No more presidential restagings; a single news photographer drawn from the White House pool will be allowed to cover televised addresses.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/photographing-presidential-broadcasts/

In the future, a designated news photographer — using a heavily muffled camera — will be present in the room to record televised presidential addresses like President Obama’s announcement on May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed.