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In many instances, Faludi's digs at Newsweek are actually somewhat unfair.
On the LAT op-ed page, columnist Richard Reeves digs up a Ben Franklin-style memo Nixon wrote to himself, that he violated with just about every waking breath: "Need to be good to do good.
The issue digs up gossip from Hollywood's ancient history: A silent-film siren says Buster Keaton was "sexy," but Charlie Chaplin didn't know how to seduce women.
Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times dissents, calling Mule Variations "personal and accessible"; as does Billboard , "Waits digs deep and wide into his song psyche and pulls up material rooted in blues, gospel, and cabaret music but delivered with the utmost originality."
Which of the following are actual Tina Brown rationalizations for her magazine's slide into darkness (quoted by New York Times writer Alex Kuczynski), and which are amusing digs at a debased editorial philosophy built around fawning over celebrity?