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Characterizing Newsweek as a tabloid is probably excessive. In truth it doesn't approach the depths of rumor and celebrity gossip that our real tabloids do; and of course we don't even have tabloids in the authentic British sense. In any case, a subscription to Newsweek is worth it for at least one reason - trends that appear on its cover are almost always at their peak.

And that should bother you, because that would imply Rudy's at his peak, and that would be bad for the country. After all, what is it about Rudy that bothers you so much? The fact that the media go after the more juicy details of his personal life? The last prominent public-servant-executive who got that treatment proved to be a great president who we all miss very much. The only other fact you cite from the Newsweek article - his "broken-windows" approach to cleaning up Manhattan - produced results that last to this day. Actual results coming from a political leader would be a refreshing change.

If you're so desperate to drop Newsweek as your news source, consider the Washington Post. It has distinguished itself from the other "paper of record", the Grey Lady, by doing, you know, actual journalism. The Post most recently broke the Walter Reed story. It's also the home of Bob Woodward who can be relied on for informed and objective reporting on the blasted wasteland that is the federal bureaucracy.