Boston Herald in Tiff With White House Over Months-Old Romney Op-Ed
The Boston Herald has accused the White House of denying its reporter full access to President Obama's local fundraiser Wednesday evening, claiming the Obama administration cited concerns about an op-ed the paper ran more than two months ago by Republican Mitt Romney .
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and possible GOP challenger in the 2012 presidential race, tore into Obama over the economy in his March 8 op-ed, which the Herald played on the front page at the time under the headline, "Why He's Failing."
The White House didn't forget.
According to emails published Wednesday in the Herald, when the newspaper tried to sign up for pool reporter duty ahead of Obama's visit to Boston, a White House spokesman questioned whether the newspaper could cover the president fairly.
"I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters," spokesman Matt Lehrich told the Herald in response to its request, according to the newspaper . "My point about the op-ed was not that you ran it, but that it was the full front page, which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting U.S. President to Boston. I think that raises a fair question about whether the paper is unbiased in its coverage of the President's visits."
However, the White House said Wednesday that the reason the Herald wasn't picked was because the Boston Globe had already signed up as part of the travel "pool," which lets one local reporter cover the news for all local media outlets so as to limit the number of people in the room.
"In this particular instance, the Boston Globe had arranged with the White House Correspondents Association, independent of the White House press office, to be part of the traveling press pool. As such, there was no need for an additional local pooler," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "As we have in the past -- including the multiple occasions on which the Herald has supplied local pool reporters -- we will continue to consider the Herald for local pool duty for future visits."
A White House aide also noted that while the White House thinks staff at the Boston Herald are routinely unfair to the president, the Herald has served as the travel pool for presidential visits in the past, including to Martha's Vineyard.
With the White House offering varying explanations, media analysts said they were unclear exactly why the Herald request was denied and questioned the logic in bringing up the months-old Romney column.
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Shown here is an image from the front page of the Boston Herald on March 8. The article was an op-ed from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The Boston Herald has accused the White House of denying its reporter full access to
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