Newsweek Being Stupid (Again)

I was reading Newsweek the other day and something caught my eye. In their weekly "Indignity Index" of all the stupid things people have done over the week, they had some politician in New Jersey who has, according to Newsweek, been attacking his rival's weight by running ads claiming that he "threw his weight around" to get out of a parking ticket. (Sorry about the run-on sentence).

And after talking to one friend who's a writer and another who's a grammar-cop, I determined that, yes, indeed, Newsweek is stupid. Any well-read person knows that "to throw one's weight around" merely means that you're trying to impress people with how influential, important, or well-known you are. But no editor at Newsweek could even run a Google search on that particular idiom. I mean, for real?

It's one thing to pretty much lie about being a non-partisan publication, but it's another to just let editing and writing go out the window. Completely.

The End.