The Obama administration got into yet another fight about transparency on Thursday when a coalition of news organizations called on the White House to stop banning photojournalists from ostensibly “private” events, only to release carefully selected photos taken by its own photographers on social media. “As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist’s camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the Executive Branch of government,” the White House Correspondents Association said in a letter, adding, “You are, in effect, replacing independent photojournalism with visual press releases.”