Candidate's 'Catch Me if You Can'

THE CANDIDATE'S 'CATCH ME IF YOU CAN'
National correspondents are increasingly frustrated by a lack of access to Sen Hillary Clinton (D-NY). They spend much of their time in rental cars chasing her from one event to the next, because the campaign usually provides no press bus or van. Life on the bus means journalists don't have to worry about luggage or directions or getting left behind, since they are part of the official motorcade. News organizations foot the bill for such transportation, but campaigns have to staff and coordinate the buses -- and deal with the constant presence of their chroniclers. With rare exceptions -- John McCain chats endlessly with reporters aboard his bus -- leading presidential candidates take a wary approach to the press, doling out access in carefully limited increments. Journalists sometimes question whether it is worth the time and energy to trail politicians who rarely engage them. In this regard, Clinton differs only in her degree of discipline, honed during eight years of often testy media relations in her husband's White House.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR200711...
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