The CBS news division has been attacked for the reliability of its information, and the seriousness with which it takes its job generally. And they've found the perfect way to respond to those challenges: they've appointed as their new head the head of the sports division, Sean McManus, whose entire career to date has been in sports. Perhaps it will work. Sportscasters have to be willing to call bullshit on a source that is obviously fibbing --- a talent that seems remarkably rare, these days, in the "serious" national press.

But the repair plan itself would be slightly more credible if McManus were leaving his old job, instead of trying to do both at once...