Adoring media figures fret that Obama will be hurt when media figures adore him less. Jon Friedman at CBS News:

I’m starting to worry about Barack Obama. … he was the favorite son of the media, who heaped almost unprecedented praise on him. Now that he has all but secured the Democratic nomination, Obama has shown little patience for standard media practices, which can range from silly to stupid. The Obama team may still think the “old” rules apply. By old, I’m referring to the kid-gloves treatment the media gave him when he was an up and comer and Hillary Clinton was heavily favored to secure the Democratic nomination. Even before Obama stunned Clinton by winning the Iowa caucus, the first high-profile showdown between the rivals last fall, the media had all but decreed that Obama would be their darling, the one who could do no wrong. … Obama has to realize that he will be subject to increasing scrutiny as the campaign really heats up. What we’ve seen so far is the orchestra tuning up. The real show begins after Labor Day, as the Obama-McCain debate season begins to take shape. … Members of Barack Obama’s campaign thought he got a raw deal from the media during his battle with Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination. Perhaps they were just trying to stir an argument because any fair-minded observer could see that Clinton was the one should have felt mistreated by the press. Obama had better toughen up — fast.

One imagines that ferocious maltreatment of this vulnerable lambkin by the media is not among the top worries of Senator Obama’s advisers.