The editor-in-chief of Newsweek was on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer tonight. His defense was, essentially, "Yeah, okay, so we only used one anonymous source and didn't even bother to try and confirm this rather inflamatory information. Everybody uses anonymous sources and we are hardly alone is running single-source stories. Nobody bothers to seek double confirmation anymore!" Ah yes, the "everyone else was doing it" defense, a classic among eight year-olds and, apparently, American journalists. Or rather (Dan Rather?) American "journalists." I'll say this about yellow journalism: at least with yellow journalism you knew you were being sold.

Newsweek clearly agree with Lionel Hutz that there is "the truth (ominous intonation, grave expression, shaking head) and the truth!" (happy voice, big smile, enthusiastic nodding).

Of course, in life it is important to keep a sense of perspective. And by that I mean STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS! Fucking Star Wars yeah!