Mitt Romney has given me gaffe fatigue. The other day he said, “I’m not familiar with precisely what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was,” and I couldn’t even be bothered to stop what I was doing and make fun of him. All winter long the Massachusetts Motormouth entertained us with his admiration for the [Read More]

Recent Time and Newsweek covers constitute last gasps in the dying newsweekly business. Of greater concern, however, is that while these magazines are already in media’s rearview mirror, their turn toward tabloid-style sensationalism reflects what is happening all along the information highway. You saw or heard about the covers that caused the fuss: Time with a 26-year-old mother breast feeding [Read More]