Newsweek | washingtonpost.com"But I won't pretend to my students that it is purely objective," writes
Evan Thomas. Newsweek editor
Jon Meacham took out
the line about a "Newsweek reporter" speaking with
John McCain and inserted the first-person pronoun "I," meaning Thomas. "I was taken aback at first to see the first-person-singular pronoun; I almost never use it in Newsweek pieces. But I do have opinions about McCain, complicated ones." ||
Howard Kurtz in his chat: "It's silly to cast each McCain victory as a defeat for radio commentators who oppose him."