"entering a period of experimentation"
'This is CBS Nightly News, anchored by Flippo the Clown. Now... here's Flippo.'
'*Honk honk*'
"Thy humble servant shall believe it when thy humble servant sees it."--from Torin Thatcher as the first mate of Burt Lancaster's ship in "The Crimson Pirate."
While there will surely be more scrutiny on what is reported and more proof demanded, I think you will probably go right back to bashing them shortly. If this happens, I believe that the reason will be that many on the right hold up the National Review and Fox News up as the gold standard for reporting. Fox News certainly leans a bit right, especially in their "editorial" portions, and National Review is of course unabashedly conservative. On CBS News I am sure there will still be some stories skeptical of the right, especially as it pertains to social issues, because as you know there are many Americans that are skeptical of it. You are the party in power at the moment, so there will be a lot of focus on you. I think this may result in you coming to the conclusion that they will be "still biased toward the left". I obviously don't know if this will be the case or not. I'm basing this on what some conservatives say that they would *like* to see on the network news. We'll see in the next year or so I guess. How do you like Brokaw's replacement Brian Williams so far? I've watched him several times and he doesn't like someone that wears his politics on his sleeve.
Oh, on a personal note RWS, if you'd like to see some pictures from my sister's wedding this weekend, go to http://erikgrow.blogspot.com/200...is-
married.html That'll take your mind off of politics for a bit! 
There's a big difference between running stories "skeptical of the right" and abandoning normal journalistic standards to run stories because they'll have a particular political impact or because they support a particular political world view.
A lot of it (on both sides) is fairly subtle too, in terms of which stories get selected for time or column inches and which ones get ignored.
I get a lot of my news from The Economist, a British newsweekly like Time or Newsweek. While there is something of a focus on economic issues, it does an excellent job with general and political news as well. Since it has an "arms length" relationship to the US, there seems to be less of an unconscious set of assumptions driving it.
We'll see about CBS, but that kind of culture change is very difficult.
Thanks for the link to the wedding pictures. It looked like everyone had a great time.
Erik, beautiful bride!!! I just love weddings! Almost as much as I love babies!!!!!
To them, the phrase "multiple points of view" means the whole spectrum through LaRouche, Farrakhan, Kennedy, the Clintons, Reid, and Boxer, with Ward Churchill and Howard Dean doing (blue) color commentary.
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