So Obama’s World Tour will enjoy having roadies provided from the Big Threee networks. Carrying water is just the start of it.
Barack Obama’s stock as a superstar candidate rose even further yesterday amid reports that the anchors of all three US television networks were planning to catch up with him on his first overseas trip as a presidential candidate.
The Obama camp has been besieged with requests from reporters to get aboard his plane for his swing through five countries in the Middle East and Europe and yesterday it was reported that the evening news anchors from ABC, NBC and CBS were planning to interview Obama during his trip.
Bono was quoted as saying “what the fook?”
Of course you’ve heard already heard of the exasperation raised from the McCain camp and the Rightosphere.
The media spotlight on Obama led to grousing from his Republican rival, John McCain, whose own visit to Europe and the Middle East in March received much more low key media coverage. No anchors accompanied McCain on his tour.
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His aides made a similar point even more sharply. “Let’s drop the pretence that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is: the first of its kind campaign rally overseas,” Jill Hazelbaker told reporters yesterday.
The sniping came as the New York Times cited research by the Tyndall Report, which monitors newscasts, which found that America’s networks devoted 114 minutes to covering Obama in the last month and just 48 minutes to McCain.
A ratio of 60:40 coverage would be media bias, but 70:30 is an embarassingly slobber-imbued imbalance.
In related news, Michelle Malkin announced a t-shirt contest. Here’s my entry:
UPDATE:
We made finalists! Thank you Michelle and Kudos to you for your discerning tastes.
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