CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller wrote today on the network's blog about what it's like to be on President Bush's press plane when the news is happening elsewhere.

So what happens, while we're half-way to Central Texas? The president walks out to Marine One to announce the resignation of his senior advisor Karl Rove.

And again this morning, the President ends his two-week ranch stay and arrives at TSTC Airfield in Waco — to makes his first public statement on the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

But where was most of the traveling press? On yet another press charter just arriving in Seattle, where Mr. Bush would be coming later in the day to do a fund-raiser in nearby Bellevue for Congressman Dave Reichert, R-WA.

I've covered enough presidential visits to know reporters don't get much up-close access. But Knoller lifts the curtain a bit about what life is like in the press pack that follows Bush, though not always as close as you may think.

Truth be told, on most presidential trips, many of us in the press corps cover his statements and actions without actually laying eyes on him.

We hear his statements on audio feeds from the White House Communications Agency or see live video transmissions arranged by the TV Networks. We get written reports from our colleagues in the pool with the President and we get transcripts of his statements from the White House stenographers.

More often than not, we're always in the same city with him. So the dateline on our reports matched the place in which the President actually spoke.

Pool reports, stenography from the White House and watching TV? They could, and should, be doing their jobs poolside in Vegas.