Why publish this now? My guess is a belated effort to soothe the people with a brain who refuse to watch CNN because of their bias.
OTOH, in all honesty I will never watch CNN even if they line their network with wall to wall conservatives. Ditto the major networks. It's time to stop shrugging off their bias and 'send them a message' the best way possible: vote with the remote.
I feel exactly the same way about MSNBC. They hire two token conservatives because they're getting whipped in the ratings - big deal. They haven't changed their stripes. This is still the network that hired Peter Arnett as a war correspondent, and whose network lineup was built around Chris Matthew. MSNBC only added the token conservatives to boost their ratings - not because they had a change of heart and saw the error of their ways.
Is FOX perfect? No, but their network was fair and balanced BEFORE the war, and when they were BEHIND in the ratings. I will not be seduced by the temptation to see a live report 5 or 15 minutes before FOX. What good is a picture if the person describing it has a political agenda? About 80% of the time, FOX has been there at the same time, or ahead of the competition. The analysts are not only experienced and smart, they are human ... alternately witty and serious, appropriate to the occasion.
And while I'm ranting..LOL...do you think the incessant anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-Pentagon will change at the NYTimes, the publisher of the CNN article? Will they issue an apology for Friedman, Apple, Dowd and the rest? Somehow I don't think so.
Working in the media made me cynical; watching it makes me sick.
Great post! You expressed what I think so well.