Obama, Ortiz and White House Photo Access: When You Can’t Handle Your Own Pitching

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Obama, Ortiz and White House Photo Access: When You Can’t Handle Your Own Pitching – Reading The Pictures

But, where’s the real substance here, with the White House so exercised that selfies are facing a ban?
It has to do with two things, visual filibustering and this Presidency’s obsession with popular and commercial culture.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/04/obama-ortiz-and-white-house-photo-access-when-you-cant-handle-your-own-pitching/

If the media sphere and the White House were all fired up over the David Ortiz/Samsung stealing of the President’s mug, that wasn’t the only “Samsung-ing” of the Obamas last week. If less celebrity wattage kept the second capture somewhat under the radar, Michelle was “Samsung-ed” too.