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Print Reporters: Odd Men Out on White House Plane

By Joe Strupp

Published: October 13, 2005 4:09 PM ET

NEW YORK Restrictions on the number of journalists allowed to tag along on advance trips to foreign countries to be visited by President Bush have raised objections from White House reporters, leading to a formal complaint.

The writers contend that new limits, which have cut in half the number of media people permitted to go, curtails their ability to prepare for the overseas excursions.

In the past, up to six media representatives were given space on the White House plane, said Mark Smith, an AP radio reporter and president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). In most cases, the WHCA would divide up the space among four television people, one radio person, and a print reporter. Following the trip, each representative writes up a report for reporters in their designated news field.

"When they are done right, they have a wealth of detail and it is stuff that is next to impossible to gather when you are arriving late one day, covering three presidential events, and leaving at noon the next day," Smith said about the reports. "The TV people write for the TV people, the radio person for radio people, and the print the same."



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Air Force One and your stewardess, Anne Coulter, will be distributing the soft drinks and peanuts.

Sean Hannity & Bill O'Reilly aren't even in the plans I bet.

over the man in 2000. He was so much more fun to cover vs that boring Al Gore. GW would come out an socialize with them press people on one of their plane rides and Gore, well he was too busy.

Yes, otohara, we need to keep this in mind as we enjoy watching them cautiously "turn" on the Bushistas. One of the main reasons we are where we are in this country is because of the fawning, lapdog, whoring press.

The more they annoy the press, the more they risk the press bolting.

Once the floodgate opens, the press won't care about access. The Whitehouse will be begging the press to come cover them so they don't get tagged as a President in isolation. (We know he's a bubble boy, even if the press doesn't report it.) When the press gets angry enough they will race each other to uncover scandals, rather than racing each other to fawn over Shrub.