Right now she is as generic,fair and balanced as one can get. Seemingly she owes nothing to no one. A great place to be. From what I have seen she still covers just the story and the basics of great journalism. So few of them come up to her ankles. If you looked at the panel segment with Hungry Howie today the other two gals on her panel really looked up to her and they should. She is a role model for all wanna be journalists.
Attiksson is her own woman. She may turn out to be liberal or conservative but nobody knows as far as I understand it. Let’s hypothesize that she’s really a liberal. I really don’t care as long as she’s fair and honest with her reporting and opinions. That’s the real attraction she has.
Conservatives can stand the pressure or bad press as long as it’s fair and truthful. In fact, conservatives will be among the first to hold other conservatives accountable. Liberals? It’s the other way around. Honest reporting does not matter as long as the reporter holds to the liberal party line. The end justifies the means and nothing is sacred. So liberal orthodoxy means anything is okay.