They'd just make fun of her

From an on-line article at Newsday.com:

On a whirlwind day in Manhattan yesterday, Sarah Palin had her first national security briefing, met her first heads of state, and got her first foreign policy tutorial from Henry Kissinger, but she still has not held her first news conference.
In the news media capital of the world, Palin dodged reporters and their questions. She's given two TV interviews but hasn't held a news conference since McCain tapped her on Aug. 29.
Palin barred all print reporters and a TV news producer from the photo shoot of the start of her meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, until TV news shows threatened to not shoot the event. After that, they were allowed in to get a glimpse before being ushered back outside.

Rico says the media only has themselves to blame; if they weren't so hard on her, she'd be more forthcoming...