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Media Protest White House Photo At Dover Air Force Base Ceremony | The Pentagon barred the media from covering the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base on Tuesday when the remains of U.S. troops killed in an attack on a helicopter returned from Afghanistan. Under the Pentagon’s policy laid out in 2009, the decision on whether media covers such events is left to the families of the fallen. DoD said 19 of the 30 families objected to media coverage. However, the AP reports that “a White House photographer was allowed to take and widely distribute a photo from the ceremony” and the photo, which depicted President Obama saluting the fallen, “was posted on the White House website as the ‘Photo of the Day.’” The Pentagon said it did not know about the White House photographer and the AP said it “did not transmit the White House photo to its customers, in accordance with its policy of refusing government handout images of events it believes the media should have access to.”