As CBS "reported": "While the White House originally lowered the flag late Saturday evening, White House reporters, including CBS News' Mark Knoller, noticed that the flag was back at full staff Monday morning."

"As Trump Stays Silent on John McCain's Death, the Senator Gets a Last Word," reads a New York Times headline.

NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw tweeted Monday:

You get the picture. The media feeding frenzy has reached a fever pitch over Trump's failure to adequately honor the same senator who pushed for war in Iraq and advocated arming and training Syrian rebels, a U.S. government program that eventually saw the Department of Defense empowering extremist factions. McCain then criticized Trump for ending the CIA's iteration of that program, claiming doing so was handing a win to Russia.  

But McCain is an American hero today, seemingly because he was a Republican who openly challenged Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the media is ignoring a far more important development: A federal trial challenging the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance programs, which McCain failed to question. In fact, in 2015, two years after whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed the extent of the NSA's privacy invasions, a court ruled to reign in some of the agency's bulk phone data collections—and in protest, McCain flatly said, "People seem to have forgotten 9/11." (Despite the highly publicized feud between the senator and the president, like McCain, supports mass surveillance.)