What do you think -- will they be fair to McCain?
CBS' "60 Minutes" will devote its full broadcast Sunday to profiles of John McCain and Barack Obama with fresh interviews, hoping to set the stage for the general election campaign's first presidential debate on Sept. 26.
Scott Pelley plans to interview McCain in Wisconsin on Thursday, the same day Steve Kroft is talking to Obama in Nevada. Both candidates also talked with the CBS newsmen earlier for pieces that will be unusually long by "60 Minutes" standards.
Current media habits in general and the treatment of Sarah Palin in particular suggest not. But I suspect CBS will be on its best let's-try-to-look-objective behavior. I'll be watching in any case. When the circus is over in a couple of months, we'll miss it, no matter how much we complain now.
