In what is being seen as a deliberate snub by US Presidential hopeful Barrack Obama's camp, the New Yorker's Washington correspondent has been denied a press place on Obama's tour of the Middle East and Europe.

Obama's camp have denied that it is a deliberate snub and have stated that there is simply not enough room...

This action follows on from the New Yorker's publication of a cartoon that depicted the presidential candidate and his wife, Michelle, in a "terrorist" fist-bumping gesture.

Ryan Lizza would normally have been one of the 40 correspondents on the plane.

Media blogger Rachel Sklar wrote on the Huffington Post: "So it's gonna be like that, is it? Retribution for unfavourable coverage is a chilling thing to contemplate."

Source: Guardian.co.uk