"What, for example, is this graphic on the letters page? Why, for that matter, is there still a letters page? It's the first page of content you come to. Five one-paragraph comments on the issue published two weeks ago–room for little more than a thumbs up or down. On the Internet, thousands of people have their say immediately and at length. And then a self-parody: 'Your thoughts on swine flu' -the cover story two weeks ago–"in six words." Hali McGrath of Berkeley, California, submitted, 'Blah, blah, swine flu, blah blah.' And Newsweek published it." The Newsweek redesign: Michael Kinsley-formerly of Time, previously the editor of the New Republic, briefly the editor of the LA Times editorial page, founder of Slate (now under the same roof as Newsweek in the Washington Post's information/test-prep conglomerate), blah, blah, etc., is not a fan.