The White House banned journalists from coming to the signing of a much-negotiated executive order on abortion yesterday, and, as expected, not everyone in the Press Corps were happy to hear that. Yet the voices shouting “what about transparency?” weren’t coming from the usual suspects–Robert Gibbs was explaining himself this morning to reporters from the AP, CNN, and MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.

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Pres. Barack Obama met with VP Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others last night for a final meeting on Afghanistan strategy before his big decision on troop deployment coming next Tuesday.

How do we know? Well if you follow the White House Flickr stream closely, you would have known about it late last night. Welcome to the new media presidency.