Since when was convenience part of the job description?

Thanks to Dan Gillmor for calling CBS News's Dean Reynolds on a ridiculous point. First, here's a clip from Reynolds's rant about the relative discomfort of working on the Obama campaign vs. the kindly generosity of the McCain campaign:

The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.

OK, I readily acknowledge that my reporting experience pales in comparison to a career journalist's. There are surely many nuances of the craft that yet escape me. But I thought one of the basics that all reporters agree to when they get into this racket is that personal comfort pretty much goes out the window. It's really not any campaign's job to make the reporters more comfortable -- and it's almost always a power play when they do. Note the section in Reynolds's piece when the McCain campaign accommodates the press corps so they can write up a flattering piece about McCain. The irony, astonishingly, seems entirely lost on Reynolds:

The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama's past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.

It's the last part, however, that really freaks me out:

Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.

But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.

This amounts to a threat against a political campaign to start catering to the press's comfort or else get ready for harsher reports. Am I missing something, or isn't that a flagrant ethical transgression?