I know that it’s piling on, and probably unfair, but I can’t resist showing you this recent morsel from John Podhoretz, discussing Newsweek:
For years, Newsweek was a liberal journal of opinion masquerading as a news publication that attempted to sell itself to a mass readership with a lot of health-care, entertainment, and lifestyle fluff. As a vehicle for news analysis, it was entirely conventional; as a purveyor of sociological fluff, it was kind of fun, though often enragingly so; as a journal of opinion, it was to actual journals of opinion as tofutti is to gelato, flavorless and bland and mock. Last year, Meacham and Co. ditched much of the news analysis and sociological fluff in favor of more and more opinion.
For someone who got his job because daddy was the editor and founder of the magazine, it’s rather rich for Podhoretz to be doing media criticism.