When a left wing daily like the Washington Post sees smoke....

anywhere in the Dimocrat party --- you can bet the fire is obvious to everybody!

3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad
By Howard KurtzWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008;

The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.
John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.

Obama has "proven adept at generating excitement," says David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio. He said the anchors hope "a little bit of that excitement will rub off on their newscasts if they can convey an American phenomenon abroad, if that's what it turns out to be. Senator McCain is not as magnetic a figure in that way."

Jim Geraghty, a columnist for National Review Online, said Obama's paucity of foreign travel as a presidential candidate makes the trip a natural draw for news organizations, while "McCain has been around forever, and he's probably been to all these places before." But, he says, "the networks will be acting as a PR wing for the Obama campaign if they treat any of these photo ops as truly newsworthy breakthroughs."

The plan is for Williams, Gibson and Couric interviews to be parceled out on successive nights in different countries, giving each anchor a one-day exclusive. (Correspondents could have done the interviews instead, but a certain competitiveness sets in once one or two anchors agree to go.) The Washington Post is withholding the scheduled locations for security reasons.

Ain't ya' glad you live in an age where you don't have to depend on these three main stream media prostitutes for your evening news. There are other, honest news networks on our TVs, the Internet, radio, the blogosphere who don't see themselves as PR flacks for the Dimocrats and their new arrogant messiah!

Hell Pilgrims, we were so naive in our youth that the uber-liberal Walter Cronkite was thought to be an even-handed honest journalist. I reckon the phrase of the time was "The most trusted man in America". Pssshaw - it was years before we discovered that the so called "Tet Offensive" in Nam was a major US victory --and if followed up on, could well have ended the war in a positive fashion. But oh no, Uncle Walter sat their, pulled off his glasses look sadly into the camera and pronounced solemnly --- "The war is unwinnable." - or words to that effect - and we believed him.

The more things change - the more they stay the same.