They brought it on themselves. The press is unfriendly to begin with. When the next in line to the Presidency is involved in a shooting and they sit on it for 24 hours then you have to expect that this press corps will have a field day.
The press "field day" on this is only hastening their destruction. They look worse, to the majority of Americans, by how they're covering this.
The local public officials were notified within 20 minutes.
I fail to see the uproar (not really, I fully expected it) by the media over not being notified 24 hours before the event, so that they could have cameras rolling to record the shooting.
Had they, they would have complained that they weren't given the right angle.
A complete non issue to any but the professional doomsdayers and Bush haters.