ABC News has a blog piece today about how the White House is producing their own coverage of certain events.

When Obama had the UCONN women’s basketball team come to the White House back in April, the White House press corps was not allowed to watch a pick-up game held on Obama’s basketball court. Not only that, but “Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who’s speaking.” And just like a regular television network, they even had a branding logo.

I know what you may be thinking right now… “So what? It was a private pickup game.” Perhaps that is true. But knowing who occupies the Oval Office right now and his radical worldview, could this be the beginnings of a state-controlled network that pumps out White House propaganda 24 hours a day? Is Obama getting into the television business too?

ABC asks:

Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they’re told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?

I would venture to say that the answer to that question is yes. After all, fascists always seek to indoctrinate the masses through their regulation and control of the media. This is just how it begins.