News Flash: The Media Back Obama

[Commentary] The single constant in the eternal election remains the media, whose activist role no one will seriously dispute. To point out the prevailing (with honorable exceptions) double standard of reporting so favorable to Sen Barack Obama (D-IL) by now feels superfluous -- much like talking about the weather. The same holds true for all those reports pointing to Sen Obama's heroic status outside the United States -- not to mention the cascade of press analyses warning that if he fails to win election, the cause will surely be racism.