Go left, young Dan.
\nGive up the ghost, stop ridin’ that dead horse. Come out of the closet, drop this objectivity
\nthing, and take the only sane, rational course: Turn CBS into the antidote to Fox News.<\/P>
\n
— Starting Monday night, retitle the CBS evening news The CBS Essential
\nTruths<\/EM>.<\/P>
\n— Co-opt the Fox News slogan: Instead of “We report, you decide,” try “We decide, the
\nbloggers report.” (Just think of the money you’ll save on forensic document experts.)<\/P>
\n
— Bring back Edward R. Murrow. Sure, he’s dead. But I hear his secretary’s grandaughter’s
\nsecond cousin (twice removed) knows exactly what he thinks about John Kerry (war hero) and
\nGeorge Bush (draft dodger).<\/P>
\n
— Continue the CBS Evening News<\/EM> tradition of news by anecdote: Nobody will
\ncomplain any more when the Bush administration’s economic figures point up\u2014and you manage
\nto find the one guy in Elkhart, Ind., who’s just lost his job, house, wife and
\ndog.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n<\/P>
\n
I think Repulski would agree.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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