NYT Mag's Snow Profile: The Highlights

As we mentioned, Sunday's NYT Magazine filed a 5,018-word profile on WH Press Secretary Tony Snow, with reporter Ben Wallace-Wells summing up, "Snow’s style is basically cheery: Gee, isn’t it fun to run the world?" Some highlights:

Briefings as Time-Sucks: "I don’t think Tony fully realized when he started," Bartlett told me, "how much of an elephant in the room the briefing is. When you get done preparing for the gaggle, doing the gaggle, preparing for the briefing, doing the briefing, taking reporter’s calls, that’s basically your day. It’s not like you’ve got all this time left to do other stuff."

More Access: And in the months since Bolten took over and hired Snow, this famously closed White House has become marginally more open. It has given reporters more on-the-record access to the president and has brought in more governmental experts to brief the press. White House officials say that these changes came, in part, at Snow’s urging.