[davidtalker]

That's true. However, that's faint praise. The NY Times Leftists go for the jugular. The so-called Conservatives try to make nice. Brooks scolded Conservatives earlier this week for getting after Newsweek and Michael Isikoff. When is the last time you ever saw Dowd, Rich, Krugman or Herbert get after the Libs?

On the other hand Nick Kristof sometimes makes sense. Recent columns on Religion and nuclear power were quite thoughtful.

[neverdem]

Brooks scolded Conservatives earlier this week for getting after Newsweek and Michael Isikoff.

I didn't consider Bashing Newsweek to be a scolding. Maybe some skins are too thin.

Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review Online had the same reaction as Brooks in The Smug Delusion of Base Expectations: Count me out of the Newsweek feeding frenzy.

Both articles are requests for some perpective.