This is not new news, but a New York Times story today notes fewer reporters are traveling with the president because of cost-cutting by news outlets.

The cutbacks and their effect on travel with President Obama, and President Bush before him, have been happening for the past few years. But the Times apparently seeks to raise it as some sort of new issue.

“There is growing concern within the press corps that the result of all these cutbacks is less reporting about the president, coming from fewer and fewer sources,” the Times' Brian Stelter reports. “In its place, probably not coincidentally, come more shouting heads, meaning that citizens still hear and see their president constantly -- but with fewer facts attached.”

He does note one new angle: with so few reporters, the use of a press charter plane to tag along behind Air Force One is being eliminated on some trips, such as one later this week.

“The news outlets vote on whether to charter a plane, but it's not easy to get the majority: The big television networks -- ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC -- represent five of seven votes. When the networks choose not to travel in a pack, reporters of all stripes have to make other arrangements."