In what is currently the “Featured Story” at Big Journalism, contributor Ron Furtrell uses the soccer game conspiracy as evidence that the media needs to “Grow some and stand up to this guy [Obama].” Later in his “open letter” to the media he writes:

Two cases in point. Obama ditching the media last Saturday for what he said was his daughter's soccer game. You might think that, since he's the president, he can do whatever he wants to do, but for decades presidential protocol has been to have the media travel with the president wherever he goes. (It's called “covering the body.”) The inquiring minds in the media suddenly don't care much that the president “dissed” them and that there was no soccer game scheduled and it certainly would not have been at the address given by the presidential staff. Where was the president during that time? I guess it's none of our business. Dear Leaders don't have to report to anybody, certainly not to this media. For a day or two the media might whine a bit about Barack, but they'll soon forget as their love and devotion takes over.