At White House Request, Newspaper Censors Mildly Negative Sentence About Michelle Obama

(By Lachlan Markay, NewsBusters.org) - This White House faced strikingly little press criticism during the 2008 presidential campaign and through most of its first two years in office. So seldom is this White House meaningfully criticized in fact, that even the most mild jab apparently inspires backlash against the press.

Just last week it was revealed that a 'San Francisco Chronicle' reporter was booted from the White House press pool for the crime of recording an anti-Obama protest with her smartphone. Then today, the 'Pleasanton Weekly', a small newspaper in Pleasanton, California, revealed that the White House had asked that the paper remove a passage it felt reflected poorly on First Lady Michelle Obama.

And, amazingly, the paper obliged. It removed the passage, saying it didn't want to make a "fuss." The White House is grateful for the self-censorship, I'm sure.

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