[Fred Mertz]

Sounds to me like the NYT writer misses the 'good ol' days'.

He makes a good point, but uses two shallow examples - Politically Incorrect and George magazine.

[summer]

But, Fred, I think the examples he uses are shallow because in many ways, that era was ___ (fill in the blank).

[RayChuang88]

It was early last August when someone here wrote a masterpiece of a parody news story wondering why Crawford, TX lacked a lot of the things you normally see in the Hamptons or in West Palm Beach. That parody was wickedly effective because it showed how the press it out of touch when you have a real President living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. :-)