Rolling Stone Gets Extra Access to Obama on Alaska Trip

"President Obama went to the Arctic last week — and Rolling Stone magazine got more than a T-shirt out of it.

During a three-day trip to Alaska, a visit the White House hailed as the first by a sitting president to the Arctic, Obama briefly traveled to the tiny village of Kotzebue.

While there, Obama spent about a quarter of his time in an exclusive interview and private photo shoot with Rolling Stone. The encounter wasn’t on the president’s official schedule, and the White House made no formal mention of it to reporters covering the trip."

Paul Farhi reports for the Washington Post September 7, 2015.