McCain Severely Limits Media Availability

clipped from www.politico.com There’s no question that John McCain has made a major change in his media strategy. The candidate who once spent hours cracking jokes with reporters now significantly limits access for the national press corps. The presumptive Republican nominee spent a total of 38 minutes talking to print, television, magazine and radio reporters from national publications over the past week, according to the count on my recorder. National reporters were given one opportunity to ask questions at a Friday afternoon press conference in Rogers, Ark. Otherwise, McCain delivered two statements to the full press corps totaling 9 minutes and 46 seconds and offering no chance for questions, and two statements to a select press pool.

In case you were wondering, this is the same John McCain who'd previously complained that Obama was getting all the coverage.

Yeah, maybe there's a reason for that...