After a year in office, Mr. Obama has managed to do what every modern president may have wanted to do but never did: effectively shut out the reporters who work just a few feet from the Oval Office. He has not had a full-scale White House news conference in seven months, the longest such stretch by any president in a decade. And he has made a practice of not taking reporters’ questions at day-to-day events, as other presidents did.

Remember how media hated on G. W. for avoiding the media? Remember how media HATED Hillary for avoiding the media early on when she was a front runner? Remember how Obama Girls such as Dowdy and Clift ( and all the other faux feminsts) Loved ON Obama for being so cool and loose with reporters, so jokey, so one of the crowd?

The Times did this (link below) soft story on O's media allergies to nudge him out of his zone of protection from hard questions so they can actually ask him some softball questions rather than have Fawning TV anchors bow in his presence or LuV-Struck Oprah fondle him so gently!

But note the tone of protection given to Obama throughout this story--painting this as evolving media rather than insulation from hard questions. Oh how funny it is to watch the New York Times flush their own relevance down the toilet to protect THEIR ONE!
The TV ad says the "best journalists in the world work at the NYTimes."
Yeah, if you time travel back to the last century! Now all you have left is Ivy sycophants and the me-too voices of liberal media Jewish New York hell bent on running journalism into an even worse nose-dive than the tail spin it is currently in.

shame!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04memo.html?ref=politics