One new item on CNS' front page is a link to the Virginia Press Association , of which it is an affiliate member. That's true, but a little misleading.
Newspapers fill the active and associate ranks.
Only one organization, a features syndicator, is listed as a sustaining member. Being an affiliate member creates no journalistic standards for CNS to abide by and requires nothing but the payment of a membership fee. The other big change is what the letters CNS stand for. Originally the Conservative News Service, it was quietly changed over the summer to Cybercast News Service. In a Nov. 30 story about a complaint filed against two lawyers representing Al Gore in the Florida post-election legal battle, including lead attorney David Boies, writer Jim Burns doesn't bother to try and get a response from Boies and the other lawyer.