Just the news please

On Thursday, when Senator Obama was in Berlin, Germany, MSNBC ran a news story with this sub-headline:

Obama addresses 200,000 in Berlin;
McCain eats at German restaurant.

No matter a person's political affiliation, that was not a "fair and balanced" juxtaposition.

McCain is currently running ads in which one hears crowds chanting "Obama, Obama" as the narrator asks who is responsible for rising gas prices. That's not exactly fair or balanced either.

But McCain's piece is indeed a political ad with that genre's attendant hyperbole.

MSNBC is a news organization.