From "Is Your Baby Racist" to "The Case for Killing Granny"? Has Newsweek lost it?

Last week's Newsweek cover, with the tagline "Is Your Baby Racist," was worth a good laugh. But after they followed it up with "The Case for Killing Granny," I'm starting to think they might have hired a drunken monkey -- or, worse, a consultant -- to design their covers. If...

By Joe Tone

September 18, 2009

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Last week's Newsweek cover, with the tagline "Is Your Baby Racist," was worth a good laugh. But after they followed it up with "The Case for Killing Granny," I'm starting to think they might have hired a drunken monkey -- or, worse, a consultant -- to design their covers.

If next week's cover is a picture of a braces-wearing teenage girl -- headline: "Is Your Teenager the Actual Devil?" -- we'll know the shark has officially been jumped.

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