 Abby Phillip reports that the White House denies having threatened to exclude a San Francisco Chronicle reporter from the print pool for capturing a protest on her video camera and posting it on the internet, as claimed in a story now topping the Drudge Report under the all-caps headline “WHITE HOUSE CRACKS DOWN ON PRESS.” 
 
 The paper’s senior political reporter, Carla Marinucci, had been invited to cover a fundraiser as part of the print pool, but had gotten out her video camera to capture a protest against the administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning last week. Chronicle senior political reporter Carla Marinucci was invited by the White House to cover the Obama fundraiser on April 21 on the condition that she send her written report to the White House to distribute to other reporters who did not attend. We can't say because neither Press Secretary Jay Carney nor anyone from his staff would speak on the record. San Francisco Chronicle editor, Ward Bushee, said in a story published early this morning that the White House retaliated by threatening to exclude the paper from future pools because Marinucci broke the pool rules. The San Francisco event last week was "in a public place with hundreds of people," Bushee said. Carla cannot do her job to the best of her ability if she can't use all the tools available to her as a journalist. The public still sees the videos posted by protesters and other St. Regis attendees, because the technology is ubiquitous. He also said the White House rules are "not in the spirit of what the Obama administration is trying to project" in its claims to be the most transparent administration ever. As part of a "print-only pool," Marinucci was limited by White House guidelines to provide a print-only report, but Marinucci also took a video of the protest, which she posted in her written story on the online edition of The Chronicle at SFGate.com and on its politics blog after she sent her written pool report. Written guidelines of the White House Correspondents Association allow print reporters to "snap pictures or take videos" as long as they provide a print report to the pool. The White House should re-examine its guidelines that segregate print and video, Bushee said, in an era when all news outlets use multimedia platforms.
– A messy media flap between the White House and San Francisco Chronicle: The newspaper says the White House threatened to ban its reporter because she shot video of a Bradley Manning protest during a fundraiser. Reporter Carla Marinucci was the pool reporter for the dinner, meaning she was supposed to provide a written report to other reporters. She did so, but she also shot the video, and Chronicle editor Ward Bushee says the White House threatened to retaliate against her and the Hearst chain. The video ban "is objectionable and just is not in sync with how reporters are doing their jobs these days," says Bushee. After the White House told Politico that it never threatened to revoke Marinucci's privileges, Bushee and Chronicle columnist Phil Bronstein stood by their accusations and said they came from top White House communications officials in off-the-record exchanges. "The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots," writes Bronstein. "And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights."