Dick Cheney Hunting Accident

In his big interview, Cheney said this:

Well, Scott [McClellan] does a great job and it's a tough job. It's especially a tough job under these conditions and circumstances. I had a bit of the feeling that the press corps was upset because, to some extent, it was about them -- they didn't like the idea that we called the Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of The New York Times. But it strikes me that the Corpus Christi Caller-Times is just as valid a news outlet as The New York Times is, especially for covering a major story in south Texas.

Perhaps the way this was handled was an intentional attempt to show that the Washington press corps isn't the information gatekeeper to the American people:

[Journalism professor/blogger Jay Rosen] correctly points out ["Dick Cheney Did Not Make a Mistake By Not Telling the Press He Shot a Guy"] that if you step back and look at it, little of what Cheney did and how he did it is something the Veep would consider a mistake. It all fits within his world view of a changing political, societal and infomedia context...

In short: the press and many of administration critics expect Cheney & Co to play by "the rules" but this administration (on several fronts) has no problem changing the rules if it doesn't like them.