Will this get the attention of Robert Gibbs? The New York Times publicly whines Obama hasn’t dropped by to kiss their ring.

Alexander Burns: NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama

Assistant managing editor Rick Berke, who moderated the panel, noted that Obama had already departed from Bush’s precedent in one important respect: He hasn’t sat for a post-election interview with the Times.
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“When the current president was elected, one of the first things he did was sit down with The New York Times and a battery of reporters,” Berke said. “This president has not sat down with our New York Times press corps in a very long time, as even Bush did.”

This earlier Mark Leibovich piece on Robert Gibbs sheds a little light on his Fourth Estate thinking.

New York Times: Between Obama and the Press (12/21/08)

The campaign bragged that Obama never even visited with the editorial board of The Washington Post — a decision that would have been unheard of for any serious candidate in a previous presidential cycle. “You could go to Cedar Rapids and Waterloo and understand that people aren’t reading The Washington Post,” Gibbs told me last month in Chicago.

If he didn’t need them during the campaign, why go now? For the record, we’re taking the under on Obama visiting the NY Times’ ivory tower in 2009.