"…New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack Obama's early political days in Chicago's ward politics (available here) was the reason for the magazine's controversial cover by Barry Blitt depicting Obama as a Muslim, has been barred from traveling with Obama on his foreign field trip this week." [LA Times]
This article is a manipulative twisting of the truth. 200 journalist applied for 50 seats. He wasn't "barred" from traveling with Obama.
He probably did earn himself the cherished cushy front seat in McSame's wife's plane.