Noemie Emery: Maybe it's time to rename it 'Lastweek'

During the first makeover of the fraught magazine Newsweek, editor Jon Meacham announced his plan to make the magazine more wine-track and serious (translation: more liberal), with a smaller, and more elite, audience. It then published cover stories about racist babies, and pictures of Sarah Palin in shorts.

To Meacham, this was all a part of his civilized mission: “I do not believe Newsweek is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we’re one of them,” he said in all seriousness. “I don’t think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.”