... as the candidate departs for Europe and the Middle East next month. The anchor heads for CBS, NBC, and ABC will be there for every historic step of the trip. 

According to the Media Research Center:

Arizona Senator John McCain has made three trips overseas since March.  No anchor has travelled with him on any of them and they provided little if any coverage of any of them. 

Sen. McCain went to Europe and the Middle East for a week in March, and the Big Three evening news programs had a total of only four full stories on the trip; one, by NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, was dedicated to McCain mistakenly saying Iran is aiding al-Qaeda in Iraq.  CBS did not even send a correspondent along, and offered only one report consisting of only thirty-one words the entire week Sen. McCain was abroad.

None of the Three networks covered Sen. McCain’s trip to Canada in June at all.

Will 2008 be remembered as the year that objective journalism—at least at the national level—finally breathed its last?

Barack Obama’s free campaign staff—also known as the mainstream media—is packing its bags and getting ready for a really cool overseas adventure with their man ...