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...This is the most fun we've had since Watergate," Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post's top editor then and now, was quoted as saying. In the liberal New Republic, Editor Michael Kinsley wrote, "The only irritating aspect of the otherwise delightful collapse of the Reagan Administration is the widespread insistence that we must all be poker-faced about it . . . C'mon, everybody, admit it. We're high." A few days later Kinsley turned up in the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page primly savages Reagan's critics and sometimes finds Reagan insufficiently a Reaganaut. Kinsley noted gleefully that...
Such spirited fun disturbed David S. Broder, the Post's chief political correspondent, who severely chided Kinsley but not Bradlee. Broder linked Kinsley with Patrick J. Buchanan, the irascible White House director of communications, as two juveniles playing mock war games, while the "grownups recognize this disaster for what it is, a calamity for the nation." So stuffy an outburst is rare for Broder, but it illustrates an attitude common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians...
From the scandal's beginning, Democratic party leaders have been bashful about making political hay out of this scandal by publicly needling Reagan to resign. Michael Kinsley '72, in The New Republic, manages to summon up the courage to tell fellow liberals to get a guilt-free chuckle out of the whole sordid affair...
...Says Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz: "New Republic has become indispensable for anyone seriously interested in the climate of political opinion." Syndicated Columnist George Will describes the magazine's writers, particularly Essayist Charles Krauthammer (who also contributes Essays to TIME), as among the country's most discerning. Michael Kinsley, 33, has made the magazine's "TRB" column an eccentric but successful blend of sardonic humor and compassion for some unlikely subjects, including Michael Jackson and lottery-ticket buyers. The magazine is less beloved by some of its traditional subscribers: many of those who canceled complained of the shift...
Those who read Harper's because of Kinsley will probably throw up their hands in disgust and join great Harper's writers like Wilfrid Sheed and David Owen in jumping ship. But the new Harper's is not hopeless or craven, just different. It's still witty and informative, and the counterman at Nini's Corner reports that it's selling very well. At the very least it deserves a chance to prove itself...