First off, this isn't really a new thing. It's been almost three years since the MOSR staff gave up completely on attending Macworld expos in person; the IDG staff were consistently complete pains in the asses when it came to acquiring our press passes (not to mention rude, impatient, and incompetent), the Keynote is available as a QuickTime stream, and it's just as easy to dish dirt through the Internet as it is in dark corners of an Expo floor. So let it be said that we don't give a flying @#$% about IDG's press pass policies, because we never intend to visit another Macworld again.
I love what they had to say about the press pass thing.