I see what you're saying Piltdown, but I think that you're wrong.
The press will go hunting for something to print, and if you don't give them something, they may find stuff that is particularly unhelpful. The press are likely to be fairly happy with something bland, factual, limited (and to a large extent pre-prepared, when you had lots of time to think about this), so give them that quickly and they are likely to be reasonably well behaved.
G