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Grapevine: Costly cursive at the White House
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Calligraphers' salaries getting attention
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- Date Mar 14, 2013
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Now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine a student reporter who was forced by vice president Biden's staff to delete pictures he took at a Biden appearance.
Has received an apology.
The University of Maryland student journalist Jeremy bar was covering a domestic violence event attended by Biden attorney general Eric Holder and senator Ben Carden.
He tells the capital -- service he unknowingly sat in a non press area and snapped a few pictures.
-- -- Biden staffer ordered him -- to delete those photos saying he had an unfair advantage over the other media.
University of Maryland journalism dean Lucy Dalglish called the move a fundamental violation of the freedom of the press.
Biden's press office has since apologized calling it an unfortunate mistake.
The sequester has government agencies.
Talking about cuts and furloughs but not every job is on the chopping block.
Paid intern ships for college students appear to have escaped.
The same US -- warning of furloughs for meat and poultry inspectors recently posted an opening for a student trainee at the animal and plant inspection service in Iowa.
Paying them more then four up to 24 dollars an hour NASA is also looking for an intern for a position.
That can pay up to.
83000.
Dollars a year -- sworn in terms.
Here in Washington the collision Griffey budget has received a lot of attention.
The White House chief -- refer makes more than 96000 dollars a year combined her salary with the other to -- refers on the White House staff.
And your tax dollars are funding 277000.
Dollars a year -- White House penmanship alone to a local Washington TV station created an invitation.
On a newsroom computer and placed it side by side.
With a real White House invitation.
Done by the pricey -- reforms.
Can you tell the difference and is it worth it.
We report you decide and finally an awkward moment in Rome.
On the appearance of white smoke at the Vatican yesterday Italian bishops were so convinced that one of their own have been named Pope.
They sent a message to the media thanking god for the election of cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan.
Ten minutes earlier cardinal Jorge broad -- -- of Argentina had already been introduced as the new Pope.
-- France's.
For political junkies here is essentially the papal version of the 1948 Dewey Truman presidential race that.
Truman won.