Media Backlash on Hillary Building?

One of the biggest problems for Hillary and her handlers is that she has to be controlled on the campaign trail. If left to her own devices, responding to random questions from the media, she quickly gets off message - her liberal activist soul exposed. If it were just for the content of her answers, that would be fine during the leftward lurch she needs in order to win the Democrat nomination. But even with that, Hillary's biggest problem is herself - in candid moments she comes of as angry and petty, in addition to clinging helplessly to her (and her husband's) habit of answering every question with the answer they think the questioner wants, regardless of how she might of answered the same question moments before.

The solution for Hillary is to keep her away from the media, more so than any other Presidential candidate currently on the trail, according to this article, The Candidate's 'Catch Me if You Can' by the Washington Post's (and CNN's) Howard Kurtz. It's an interesting read, and leads me to believe that the mainstream media is soon going to be demanding more media access from Hillary in trade for continued positive media coverage. And I'm not sure if Hillary can risk that.

Access by reporters to Hillary on a regular and candid basis will inevitably result in an occasional slip by the candidate. Just picture her husband's problems this week in telling an audience that he was against the Iraq War from the beginning - a lie so egregious that even his allies in the media had to respond and correct him. Like Bill's, one of Hillary's slips will be so bad that the reporters will have no choice other than reporting it. Hillary will respond as she usually does, by killing (figuratively or literally - you decide) the messenger. And that, no doubt, will result in an even bigger blow-back from some members in the press.

And then the veneer slowly will slip off...