NW, ahora con la explosion latina!

Mis amigos, miren a Newsweek. Es Don Francisco, no? Claro que no, es Antonio Villaraigosa, nuevo alcalde de Nuestra Senora la reina de Los Angeles. Pero, miren, mis amigos, a su sonrisote, a los brazos abiertos, a la playa en la fonda. Newsweek se encontro la explosion latina! Es como BET, no?

Well, the letter from Editor-In-Cheif Richard M. Smith again addresses the Koran flushing possible burning by a source thing. I still don't get how they were burned when two government officials, both anonymous, gave or checked the info. It is hard to say you were burned by lies *before* the story came out, is what I'm thinking. Afterwords, I think, NW got the shaft. Frankly, I wish NW would not write this puny letter and would stick up for itself. If your journalism methods hold water, hold the feet to the fire that deserve to go there, you big wimps.

(Side note, "Truth or Dare" is on and some police were telling Madonna's people that they could not do the sexy dancing or she would be arrested. I was like, don't these police have anything better to do? It turned out it was in Toronto. So, no. They don't have anything better to do than worry about Madonna's indecency)

The letterwriters take an uncustomarily hostile tone with NW. And for all the wrong reasons! When will it occur to people that the reasons that our soldiers are in danger in Iraq and Afghanistan have little to do with "lies" printed by the American media as they have as much to do with the images the rest of the world's media is showing and the stories it is telling about the war. It's a lot easier, I guess, to blame NW for putting your son in danger than blaming irrational fear and ignorance. Because those are the things that have gotten about 1,600 soldiers and goodness only knows how many Iraqis killed.

I can't believe I'm defending NW and reporter Michael Isikoff.

"Humans, we imagine, will gladly turn over this particular shore to our automated friends."

"Right on, Debbie: don't go changing."

"Democrats had better pray they're part of it."

He's survived worse."

"In so doing, they will be exchanging the now outdated language of multiculturalism for an updated version of the melting pot."

"With the fate of the Senate hanging in the balance, those are words even Owen's opponents might want to hear."

"It is an effort that would have made his grandparents proud."

"But it's also what the British might have said once — and might still say — about the Fakir of Ipi."

"Can't it be that in the vast world of television's tomorrow, we'll be nostalgic for the wasteland?"

"Nine out of ten dentists agree"

Well, that's about it. This wasn't a banner NW. I guess it was too down on itself to be pretentious.