Is The State newspaper shifting its slant?

Don't look now, but The State newspaper seems to be shifting its editorial slant, or at least Joe Person is.
These stories by Person point out the deficiencies, but they also include the positive, and don't focus on the negative.

Congrats Joe for getting with the program and realizing you could end up look bad with the negative only stuff.

Here are the articles I'm talking about:

Four games into the season and USC stands right where they need to be to challenge for the SEC title

http://www.thestate.com/gamecocks/story/186878.html

USC secondary basks in rare air

http://www.thestate.com/gamecocks/story/185927.html

System thrives on change -- Head Ball Coach not afraid to go with the hot handhttp://www.thestate.com/gamecocks/story/183757.html

USC ranked 104th in rushing defense, but 10th in scoring and second in passing

http://www.thestate.com/gamecocks/story/182003.html

PS: Ron (MoRon) Morris still has a ways to go. He gave us a diatribe about the greatness of 4 Clemson players earlier this week, but Clemson has yet to beat a quality opponent (they play so few). They'll have to beat a couple average to good teams before they deserve all the fawning MoRon trumpets.

Seth Emerson is still in the dark himself. He called himself an idiot a few weeks ago for picking Georgia big over S.C. He may have been right about himself, but it was not because of a bad pick. Emerson's comment about Jasper Brinkley's draft status being harmed by his injury, in a totally unrelated story, was "Hall of Shame" material.