On Obama’s Asia trip, members of media will have to pay $60,000 each for flights

[flowers]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-obamas-asia-trip-members-of-media-will-have-to-pay-60000-each-for-flights/2014/10/30/224b7bb2-607d-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html?hpid=z4

President Obama’s trip to Asia next month should prove to be reasonably newsworthy, given its regional summit meetings in China and Burma and a stopover in Australia. For the news media, however, there is a more immediate concern: the heart-stopping cost of covering the president’s travels.

News organizations began reacting with surprise and exasperation when they learned this week that a ticket to ride on the press charter plane that follows Obama throughout Asia will be $60,000. Per person.

That cost — the most expensive total ever — does not include hotel stays, meals and shared “ground costs,” such as the rental of hotel ballrooms for use as press filing centers. Those additional expenses could push the total bill to about $70,000 per person for nine days of travel, according to some White House journalists.

[Cyber Liberty]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-obamas-asia-trip-members-of-media-will-have-to-pay-60000-each-for-flights/2014/10/30/224b7bb2-607d-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html?hpid=z4

They'll gladly pay it.  Proudly, even.

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is one way to make sure you're trip is covered only by The New York Times and CNN.   

[Cyber Liberty]

This is one way to make sure you're trip is covered only by The New York Times and CNN.   

It certainly would filter out all the riff-raff.