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If you saw the movie "Good Night, Good Luck", you will at least have a memory and a record of the apex of a once great network CBS, and it's nightly news anchored by heroic journalists such as Edward R Murrow in the film, or Walter Cronkite and even Dan Rather.
But the relentless Republican "noise machine" and it's dishonest propaganda pimps have managed to nueter CBS evening news of any political content. First they forced out Rather, not for unfactual reporting, but for being duped by forged documents. Of course when the President says in his many excuses to his false claims of WMDs in Iraq, it was due to faulty intelligence, nobody on the right holds him accountable.
And now with the announcement that Katie Couric is going to be the new anchor on the CBS evening news, you can score another victory for the right and for the corporate-owned media.
You can bet Katie is not going to ask any unpleasant questions.
What's next Simon, Paula, Randy and Ryan, replacing the crew on "60 Minutes"?

Here's a relevant, and topical, quote from author Peter Schrag on immigration:
"Now that California's future depends in large measure on the children of Mexicans,Salvadorans,
Filipinos, Indians, Koreans, and Pakistanis, are the voters who remain disproportionately Anglo white, willing to provide the schools, universities and other services that they provided when the beneficiaries were the children of Iowans, Kansans, and Nebraskans?"
The obvious answer, doesn't give me a lot of hope for the future of California, unless we get some politicians with a vision......Arnold is not the answer.