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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Journalists were barred from covering the Obama riled vs. Tiger Woods

Port St Lucie, Florida (Reuters)-The White House correspondent of the Sunday Times AS it bitching has been stymied access to covering President Barack Obama playing golf with golf superstar Tiger Woods.

"On behalf of the White House Correspondents Association, today I expressed concerns from all representative said print, radio, online and TV because we simply did not have access to the President of the United States during this week," said the Association's President, Ed Henry, who is also from CNN television, AFP was quoted as saying.

These associations are demanding transparency and coverage there's a journalist pointing peliput golf which in fact allowed covering exclusively the activity of it.

This week the U.S. time, Obama played golf with Tiger Woods but the swarm of reporters who were with the President, including an AFP journalist and photographer, were not allowed to cover the event.

The US President then missed a long weekend at a luxury resort in Florida after the previous Saturday to learn golf from legendary coach Butch Harmon.

The White House denied its own restricted access such coverage.



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