you nailed it rich. While John McCain's campaign whines about media bias, there is actual media bias and it's almost completely in McCain's favor. Meanwhile it is not biased for the media to cover Obama's speeches (that seems to be the essence of the complaint) because tens of thousands of people show up to listen. He always fills to capacity regardless of the venue, and overflow is always turned away. That is a newsworthy event. If the other candidate can't gin up enough enthusiasm to fill an auditorium, it's not newsworthy (photo of McCain audience Wednesday):
want to hear something really sad?
That was a town hall meeting.