Obama and the Media: Will They (or at least Katie Couric) Faint?

"Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the "in other political news" portion of his newscast.

But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights."

The above is from the International Herald Tribune (iht.com), and is now linked on Drudge.  Go there for complete story.

Is it possible for the media to go more in the tank for Obama?  I don't think so.  It really is an open question as to whether these people will actually swoon in the glow of Obama's "charm" (somewhat lost on me, but I never swooned over a rock star or movie star either). 

Why do these "news" organizations not have to register as political action committees?  They are clearly acting as an arm of the Obama campaign. 

P.S.  I KNOW my heading is sexist.  It is MEANT to be sexist.   Sue me.