I suppose this qualifies as a reboot, in the sense of “booting again.” The new approach to the campaign will still feature the same arms-length approach to the press, and that may have reporters undermining the supposed relaunch of the Hillary Clinton campaign. Twice within the first two days of the Roosevelt Park event, the campaign has taken extraordinary steps to limit press coverage, Dylan Byers reports:

Less than 48 hours out from its formal launch, the Hillary Clinton campaign has twice managed to anger the traveling press corps by denying access to the candidate.

Monday’s dust-up, in which the print pool reporter was denied access for ambiguous reasons, came just one day after the campaign had angered reporters by keeping them away from Clinton’s impromptu exchange with local New Hampshire residents.

The first dust-up occurred at a house party in New Hampshire on Sunday. No one told the press pool that Hillary would go outside and conduct an impromptu Q&A, and the campaign kept the poolers inside the house. That angered the Boston Globe’s Annie Linskey, who sent out the following message to the media through her pool report:

“The pool was kept in the backyard, and did not get to see Clinton walk out of the event and greet a group of neighbors who were across the street,” The Boston Globe’s Annie Linskey wrote in her pool report. “Neighbors later confirmed this occurred. Also, a local CBS news camera caught the exchange.”

“The pool threw a fit when she heard Clinton had left the house,” Linskey wrote. “Your pooler got outside fast enough to see Clinton drive away.”

Today, the campaign decided to just deny access altogether to the media’s choice of pooler, the Daily Mail’s David Martosko. This time the Boston Globe‘s Linskey reported the details of this eruption:

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign this morning banned a representative from the national print pool from attending any of her events in New Hampshire, a development that will make coverage for her trip to New Hampshire spotty for some of the country’s largest print outlets.

The campaign team for Clinton, who is a former US secretary of state, is not allowing a reporter from the Daily Mail, a London news outlet, to have access to her events. Nick Merrill, a Clinton campaign spokesman, said that the campaign is getting “blowback” from foreign outlets. Foreign outlets have not been granted access to some Clinton events because the campaign wants to give preference to US publications. …

When Martosko showed up at their first event in Rochester, he said he was denied access inside the YMCA of Strafford County by a “Secret Service agent.” When he requested to use the restroom, the agent told him the area had already gone through a security sweep and he should “hit the woods.”

Unlike her Democratic rivals, Clinton’s campaign has only held a handful of public events since she announced her candidacy – meaning access to the smaller or pooled events are critical to understanding how she’s formulating positions.

Interestingly, the campaign claims Martosko got denied because they’ve adopted the White House pooling rules. Er, why? The Clintons haven’t been in the White House in 15 years, and they’re not sure to get back in at this rate, either. Hillary isn’t president — she’s a political candidate, and the media should be covering those events, especially since she’s not terribly interested in taking questions from them.

This is just another example of Clintonian arrogance and the demand for a coronation rather than an election. At least for now, the media’s balking at it. We’ll see whether they stick with their pushback, or whether an exclusive or two mollifies them.