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Granted, the story itself is a bit old news; however, the reporters who got ditched still haven’t forgotten.  Myself, I find it childish of reporters to insist on spending every living second covering anyone, even a president.

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The press gets in a revenge story.

Seems Obama ditched the press to be alone with his family for a while and a Politico reporter writes that Obama is “bristling.” I’d be bristling too.

News to the press: We don’t have to know what flavor of shaved ice Obama buys for his daughters or what color pants he’s wearing. It’s interesting but not a need to know kind of thing.

Politico: HONOLULU – The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.

Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to chafe at boundaries that are only going to get smaller.

Obama even took the unusual step Friday morning of leaving behind the pool of reporters assigned to follow him, taking his daughters to a nearby water park without them. It was a breach of longstanding protocol between presidents (or presidents-elect) and the media, that a gaggle of reporters representing television, print and wire services is with his motorcade at all times.

Then when reporters finally caught up with Obama at Koko Marina Paradise Deli and he acknowledged them for one of few times since arriving in Hawaii last Saturday, he sounded resigned.

Source: http://ochairball.blogspot.com/2008/12/reporters-mad-obama-ditched-them.html